Thought you found a way out Thought I found a way in Let the fire burn too long Some kind of original sin We were standing on different sides Too stubborn to change Reciting the same old lines From a different page I want to believe It was just bad luck In this timeline that we're on Things just couldn't line up And I like to imagine The 9 thousand 9 hundred Ninety-nine other times Everything worked itself out And the house is as empty now As it has ever been I can't remember what we'd fight about But I guess it's not important We were standing on different sides Too stubborn to change Reciting the same old lines From a different page I want to believe It was just bad luck In this timeline that we're on Things just couldn’t line up And I like to imagine The 9 thousand 9 hundred Ninety-nine other times Everything worked itself out Tell me where you are and when And how we, how we get back there again It’s a long lonely way to the middle It’s a long lonely way I want to believe It was just bad luck In this timeline that we're on Things just never lined up And I like to imagine The 9 thousand 9 hundred Ninety-nine other times Everything worked itself out