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[Verse 1] Measure me in metered lines And one decisive stare The time it takes to get from here to there My ribs that show through t-shirts And these shoes I got for free I'm uncounseled I'm lonely I am so much better than I used to be [Interlude] [Verse 2] Terrified of telephones and shopping malls and knives And drowning in the pools of other lives Rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony Get clobbered on by courtesy In love with love and lousy poetry [Chorus] And I'm leaning on this broken fence Between past and present tense And I'm losing all those stupid games That I swore I'd never play But it almost feels okay [Bridge] Circumnavigate this body of wonder and uncertainty Armed with every precious failure and amateur cartography I'm breathing deep before I spread those maps out on my bedroom floor [Chorus] And I'm leaning on this broken fence Between past and present tense And I'm losing all those stupid games That I swore I'd never play [Outro] But it feels okay And I'm leaving with goodbye And I'm losing but I'll try With the last ways left to remember, sing My imperfect offering