to live & die in columbus, ohio Lyrics

Setting up the dominoes

How I love to watch the fall

Well that's how the story goes

Not a fight that's hard to call

Stealing pieces of the rainbow

Won't get you very far at all

Too cold-blooded for this rodeo

Can you feed me the fireball

I'm searching for my very soul

At the bottom of this toilet bowl

If it means, complete control

Fly me from the top of this flagpole

Really wondering, what's the end goal

Bureaucratic, thought patrol

There was more smoke on the grassy knoll

Than yo hablo español

I don't wanna have to

I don't wanna have to

Have to have to have to

Have to battle

I don't wanna have to push for something that I want, and have to settle for, settle for, settle for

Settle for second best

I don't wanna have to compromise all the time, time, time

Well you're not gonna be able to cop a plea

Plea, plea, plea, plea

Or chop an

An axe

Because in essence for the time being

And for the foreseeable future

You've given up on writing anything important

Anything important

In essence, you've given up

Let the sadness boil over

Hear the steam pour out your ears

Getting hotter, can't take much longer

Getting louder, still no one hears

I don't blame them, I'm just a stranger

Whining about my wasted years

If you're listening, you hear me now

All I ask for, is that you cheer

I beat this stutter, into my mouth

I beat it in but I can't beat it out

Shut the shutters, close the blinds

I am slowly losing my mind

Push the boulder, climb up the hill

Or feel the crushing weight of standing still

Rest my shoulders, in the trebuchet

Cannon fodder for flower bouquets

Feeling lost, in the sea

Trapped in abandoned submarines

Why's it mean so much to me

When I die how I'll be seen

It hurts, it gets hard to breathe

I felt the same way at seventeen

Murmur passion, breathless too

Leave me nameless, a plate of food

Talking backwards, what do you do

Play the court jester, play the fool

Naked language, in the sky

Take me somewhere, nobody knows

What a waste, to live and die

In Columbus, Ohio