Expected Sum Lyrics

He'll go to bed hungry

Just to save a little money

And he'll wake up sick and lonely

Just another Monday

He won't call eight eleven

Before he digs

He won't give them a chance

To stop him from sinking

In the meantime, he says

There's plenty of branches

To grab hold of

As you fall

But make no mistake

Make no mistake

Make no mistake about

What you are

A target, a number

An expected sum

A garden, a lumberyard

A prism hidden and

Buried in the dark

The spectrum dissipates

And the road is narrow

But it's never straight

The lectern awaits a lecture

But no one stands up

To explain the way

It's all stacked up against you

Fact-checked and fool-proof

More pallets and shrink-wrapped

Corporate bulk orders

An avalanche tipping you

Right off of the forklift

In the meantime, he says

There's plenty of branches

To grab hold of

As you fall

But make no mistake

Make no mistake

Make no mistake at all

Make no mistake about

What you are

A target, a number

An expected sum

A garden, a lumberyard

A prism hidden and

Buried in the dark

The spectrum dissipates

And the road is narrow

But it's never straight

The lectern awaits a lecture

But no one stands up

To explain the way