If you’ll pretend to be my friend
I’ll pretend that you are talking me down
Lonely in the early hours
Ours are always only running out
But someone understand this
Somebody an awful lot like me
And I can’t tell if I’m keeping you afloat
Or pulling you down with me
If we are all a deck of cards
A few of us must be the suicide kings
The jack of spades, the queen of hearts,
The other cards are always whispering
With the best and the noblest intentions
They’re cloaking their confusion in concern
But they don’t know that the hand they never show
Is only making matters worse
I’m always a sinner
So I’m always coming clean
But we’re never forgiven
And we’re never going to be.
But someone understand this
Somebody an awful lot like me
And I can’t tell if I’m keeping you afloat
Or pulling you down with me
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