Ends With Benefits

[Verse 1] Just a pretty little time stamp Left behind: A burnt match, the light of our lives Casts a net or cuts the corners It's over, we lied, long drives, now 9 to 5s Good ideas make way for better ones It’s a key to the cell Chords and commas we should put on the shelf Besides that, I'm now beside myself Aren't you? Hard of hearing with nothing to lose [Chorus] I shared these plans with you To find a voice But you never follow through [Verse 2] Comfortable and careless We’d descend: Lower, lows Less desirable ends Less photographic memories Less friends Come up for air and start descending again It's a grand scheme Just little black dots All pressed one by one In a brown cardboard box A closet of forget-me-nots, that we all forgot Sold the blueprints, and settled for rot [Chorus] I'd shared these plans with you To find a voice But you never follow through [Outro] I made these plans with you To find your voice Whoa-oh-oh whoa whoa Just friendly competition casting shadows on the 1st and 15th Whoa- oh-oh whoa whoa It throws shade on every moment Now that age begins to gather its speed Whoa-oh-oh whoa whoa Whoa-oh-oh whoa whoa-oh Whoa-oh-oh whoa whoa Whoa-oh-oh whoa whoa This OD of reality needs a more desirable end So I still pretend