The Graduates

We were the French club dropouts
 But we never got excused from class
 The secretary must have been high
 To turn a blind eye on us sneaking out back
 And we were pregnant on the balcony
 And you caught me with a cigarette
 I never put the thing on my lips
 Just crushed it and spit on where I laid it to rest
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 I was the best at being second place
 But now I'm just the runner-up
 At being the second one you think of every day
 Before you go back to one
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 We were the law school rejects
 So we quarrelled at the bar instead
 Shot out in four words or less
 You want a jail, you want a mess, you have the right to drink less
 Then we were floating on a balcony
 And I fell into a trampoline
 I never should've looked for a hand
 From an invisible pushmi-pullyu pushin' on me
 I was the best at being second place
 But now I'm just the silver you dread
 And only in the shape of a bullet
 Am I ever the shape you see when you wake up dead
 So will you cauterize the bleeding or bastardize the meaning?
 I'm the one worth seeing
 As a waif, a friend, I guess that's the extent
 More than assisted when you cut inside the paper
 To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out into the void
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 I was the best at being second place
 Oh, I was the best at being second place
 I was the best at being second place
 Oh, I was the best at being second place
 I was the best at being second place
 But now I'm just the runner-up
 And only the second one you think of every day