Well-Read Lyrics

"Oh, lemme tell ya, you think YOU have a hard time with your significant other? Well, how about when you find out YOURS is an egotistical supervillain, bent on tearing a hole in the universe? Hard to beat, huh? Just lemme get some of this off my chest, will ya? If you don't mind..."

Don't you know
The look on my face is something to chase?
Don't you know
When I knew your intellectual kiss
Would be something I'd miss

Don't you know?
Here's a list of the things I'm missing:
Not how you used to write
Ooh, but how you used to be right
Don't you know
(How you used to be bright)
You can't divide me, you don't define me
You merely burn me
And I am lost, my body's shakin'
And I'm having a good time

Sleeping through the alarm
Now the secret's out
Everybody needs a little bit of
Something to forget about
When your patience is locked in, and clocked out
Everybody needs a little bit of
Something to forget about

So when the left seems right
And your thoughts drift in the night
Tell me how to feel the burn
From a sun that gives no light
Much more sensible than I
And you'll quickly find out that he's not that type of guy
Now I'm head of the class of sass
Are you listening?
And this is what he said:

Teach me to read and listen

(You're not ready)

Can I learn to love or not yet?
My eyes have been through so many texts

That if I grabbed a new pen

I'd probably write ‘til I'm dead
Pages empty, stories plenty

"Now, if there's one thing I know, a story like this one is no good one-sided, so might I offer you his perspective - but don't say I didn't warn you first..."

And all I ever wanted was to be someone
He shook his head, and plainly said
There would be no help from anyone
And as I keep on marching through these fields of hell
I thought:

"I'm gonna give it to someone else"

Tell ‘em I'll be lookin' for someone else
Lookin' for someone else
But who, but who?
Tell ‘em I'll be lookin' for someone else
Someone else
Tell ‘em I'll be lookin' for someone else
Someone else

Oh, give me the respect that I have coming
Or else I'll...
I'll be lookin' for someone else
Tell ‘em I'll be lookin' for someone else

So to all the fears, and children's tears
Of mine will fall away
Don't fall out of line, just stay up on mine
The one thing we've got left to own us is time
No fun, let's drink some blood
Don't strike too fast, you'll strike the master's blade
All that I see, all that I fear
All that I hear

They say that love comes in bursts
That blood comes in streams
And if so, then what's this water rushing over me?
(Isn't this really something?
No? Then au revoir, and thanks for nothing)

"Now, in my part of town
There's nobody around
Just some repetitive sounds
It's where the teenagers drown
So when I crash to the ground
My place in history crowned
Watch the clocks all go down
And just say:
‘Go on, take a bite of me now'"

Tomes house the dead alone, girl
But you're standing on your own, girl
What would you do if the universe stopped?
Go on, say goodbye to me now

In an alternate future, I'm forty and homeless
And that timeline travels the same rate as this one

So how, when the future collides with the present

Can I find the strength to love someone again?

I CAN'T
The answer is I WON'T

For you are not among the selfless

You are not among the selfless

I'm the one of which they speak

All rise for the entrance of my lord
The illusion of conclusion that defines us all
(Blood comes flowing from the stables)
Your last chance lies aboard the Plight of Proxy
Blood comes raining from the garden