The Impact of This Exit

You've quite a life you live now

Did your lumbar give out?

Your foot ain't in a beeping anklet

Why do you look so unwell?

Why so afraid of yourself?

And terrified to leave your stasis?

I watched you stretch an hour to a day

Didn't used to do things that way

Remember when all our friends did the same

And we called them weak?

Don't you go checking out on me now

Don't you know you're a winner?

I have never met a winner who

I have never met a winner who

Hates to win quite as much as you do

Don't you know you're a winner?

We stuck it out till daybreak

Five years, not once did you wake

With any sort of rested temper

I watched you watch your dreams come true

Just to fall back asleep

Don't you remember when we didn't mind the mess?

Did much more with so much less

Don't you go checking out on me now

Don't you know you're a winner?

I have never met a winner who

I have never met a winner who

Hates to win quite as much as you do

Don't you know you're a winner?

You could have been a god

If you'd just done as I told you

But you'd rather waste away

In your voluntary coma

Get over it and grow up

Just stop

I don't wanna have you in my head

I would take that coma any day

Over anything you'd do instead

I watched you keep the ends in sights, and the means in tears

And I watched you cast our friends to the side if they ever interfered

And I let you keep me up all night for five whole years

And I let you eat me alive

Don't you think for a second that you're welcome here now

I don't wanna be your winner

I don't wanna be a winner who

I don't wanna be a winner who has to win in the way that you do

I don't wanna be your winner

I don't wanna possess you

I would rather be this mess

Than the one you were turning into

Than the one you would turn me into

Than the one you would have me do

Than the one checking out on me now

Than the old dog I am gonna put down

Than the old dog I am gonna put down

Than the old dog I am gonna put down

There you go, checking out on me now