We're swept by the dawn, and as we lie awake You lay stiff in my arms, adrift in the wake Of what felt less like love, and much more like a take Of a scene in a movie where the heroine's saved From her lonely, desperate state
We've dotted our i's and crossed all of our t's In the script of the lifestyle we planned for our teens But I'm just a prop that you set for your stage In a fairy tale romance the critics would praise If each kiss were performed, as always: "Once more, with feeling"
But we kids disregard all of our yearning hearts And make like we're actors just playing our parts Constructing characters so unlike ourselves To live out our lives in the artificial realm Of drama we create
'Cause life is a movie we'd all watch again But just can't bring ourselves to rewind in the end We make mistakes that we wish we could change And the things we regret form the coming of age And I wouldn't want it any other way
So now we're eighteen, and I feel much too old To continue the farce; to keep filling these roles As we lie together we lie to each other We're closer than we've ever been But I move further from the truth The longer that I lie next to you
Left my love in bottled letters Convinced myself it's for the better To end this, but I'll always remember I swear to hold my breath forever
(This is the last time I'll ever swear myself to you This is the last time I'll ever say, "I love you too")