My days are numbered
Hours fit in little boxes
Cross them off
Another month goes by
If times a healer
Then I should be feeling better
It's been a while since I stretched a smile

The safest place
A box inside a box
Tucked away
Just forgotten déjà vu

Everything
Lit up in high definition
Our sin on some flimsy plastic
A green screen
Apocalypse scene
It never seemed so real
You could reach out and grab it
You could reach out and grab it

You used to keep
Jars full from the mill pond
Tiny universes
Sitting on your shelf
Hold them tight
Up against the light
They glisten if you listen
You said
Hear that tiny life?

From one to ten
How was your experience?
Please bear in mind these drugs can have alarming side effects
This modern life
Is always on my mind
Dumping poison in the water
Eat the Teflon off the knife

From one to ten
How many of your friends
Can vouch for you if coming to your inevitable end?

When the clock stops and the lights are turned off
Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying?
Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked
For when the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving
When the clock stops and the lights are turned off
Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying?
Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked
For when the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving

I'm tearing up my love letters
I'm leaving all the dishes in the sink
I'm leaving all the doors left open
If our futures hanging on the brink

Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked
Until the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving
When the clock stops and the lights are turned off
Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying?