The Graduates-Speedy Ortiz

[00:16.48]We were the French club dropouts [00:20.78]But we never got excused from class [00:25.66]The secretary must have been high [00:28.54]To turn a blind eye on us sneaking out back [00:33.72]And we were pregnant on the balcony [00:38.13]And you caught me with a cigarette [00:42.96]I never put the thing on my lips [00:45.79]Just crushed it and spit on where I laid it to rest [00:58.33]I was the best at being second place [01:02.04]But now I'm just the runner-up [01:06.40]At being the second one you think of every day [01:11.64]Before you go back to one [01:23.56]We were the law school rejects [01:27.82]So we quarrelled at the bar instead [01:33.08]Shot out in four words or less [01:35.60]You want a jail, you want a mess, you have the right to drink less [01:41.00]Then we were floating on a balcony [01:45.21]And I fell into a trampoline [01:50.08]I never should've looked for a hand [01:52.90]From an invisible pushmi-pullyu pushin' on me [02:01.10]I was the best at being second place [02:04.53]But now I'm just the silver you dread [02:08.91]And only in the shape of a bullet [02:12.28]Am I ever the shape you see when you wake up dead [02:20.80]So will you cauterize the bleeding or bastardize the meaning? [02:26.38]I'm the one worth seeing [02:29.25]As a waif, a friend, I guess that's the extent [02:33.22]More than assisted when you cut inside the paper [02:36.80]To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out into the void [02:58.54]I was the best at being second place [03:06.40]Oh, I was the best at being second place [03:15.40]I was the best at being second place [03:23.23]Oh, I was the best at being second place [03:32.21]I was the best at being second place [03:35.87]But now I'm just the runner-up [03:40.47]And only the second one you think of every day