One Step Ahead

How can you be so certain that you're the one flirting with fire?
 If each choir needs preaching and everyone's reaching
 Into their pockets to see what they got
 If not a lot has changed, but if everything's changing
 Blame to see you sin, but no one sees face to face or eye to eye
 This is not how it has to end
 Who wants to be one step ahead
 And the first to the punchline?
 Just one step ahead
 First to the punchline
 When it feels like it's all closing in
 All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead
 Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh
 'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say
 'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head
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 How can I be so certain that my first impressions are mine?
 If each morning I wake up with circles around me that say
 I got mine, I give in, I give up, it's too much
 Come on, let's give 'em hell
 "No, why not love?", you say
 Be too hard and that's not enough in this house of cards
 Who wants to be one step ahead
 And the first to the punchline?
 Just one step ahead
 The first to the punchline
 
 When it feels like it's all closing in
 All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead
 Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh
 'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say
 And every line we cross, we say the same things that we say
 Every time we try we play the same old games, it's all been said
 Now, never mind all the noise going through your head