Dotted Lines

My heart won't break, it's locked in a safe

There is no key, ok, ok

The windowpanes can't stop the rain

The wind outside, it sounds like trains

We're so well read

We've filled our heads with all that knowledge left for dead

But we're still cracked, we can't relax

'Cause all we've learned is nothing lasts

It's nil out there with all their stares

But we don't care, don't care, don't care

We toed the line but it broke this time

And now we've sunk to picking fights

It's sad but true that it's up to you to find the faults in what we do

I know my place

It's the same old case

It's what we've labeled saving face

There's always time to sign your name

There's always a dotted line to blame

There's always laugh tracks in my brain whenever I try to explain this

Seems everyone's an open book and they found mine and you all looked

The pages were blank, except the last one shows my middle finger

But I can't complain

I got this way by laughing at the sadder things

It's like we're cursed

We're always first to watch as our hopes hit the dirt

But we don't mind

We always find another guinea pig to fly

I'd like to think that I can't sink 'cause I hit bottom just last week