…well, better than the alternative

Pink lemonade on autumn bomber coats
 Peter Pan collars, but my daughter's growing up
 She's gonna be a lot like me
 But I don't wanna be at all like me
 Yellow buzzcuts, pulling out stingers
 You're telling me I'm holding up eleven fingers and
 Stranger things than death can happen
 To lab rat girls and pretty white rabbits but
 Everybody knows that nobody knows that
 Everybody's in on everybody's business!
 This isn't my first Christmas
 I know mistletoe when I see it
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 And when we find out what's wrong with me
 Could you tell me how I'm right for you?
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 And when we find out what's wrong with me
 Could you tell me how, could you tell me how
 And if I'm still pretty?
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 Cigarette burns, laugh lines, wide dimples
 If they could see the future back when times were simple
 Would they kiss your cheek or yank the bandage off?
 Let you speak or take advantage of how
 If everyone's sick, well then nobody can catch it, and if
 Everybody's different how could anybody match?
 And we're looking through the pockets of the hand-me-downs we've laid out
 Wondering if we'll fit into the yesterdays we've played out
 Everybody knows that nobody knows that
 Everybody's all up in my god damn business!
 This isn't my first kiss, it's better to be lost than
 Loved, now, isn't it?
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 And when we find out what's wrong with me
 Could you tell me how I'm right for you?
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 And when we find out what's wrong with me
 Could you tell me how, could you tell me how
 And if I'm still pretty?
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 Walking bikes home with a scraped-knee sunset
 Smudged across your brow
 Warmer tears than you've grown used to since then
 A toast to the nosebleed seats
 And the big dream sequence where you're found
 Guilty of your innocence and gently sent right back to bed
 Everybody knows that nobody knows that
 Everybody's all up in my motherfucking business!
 This isn't my first anything
 This isn't my first anything!
 Everybody knows that nobody knows that
 Everybody's in on everybody's business!
 This isn't my first lyric, I know exactly how I should finish it!
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 And when we find out what's wrong with me
 Could you tell me how I'm right for you?
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 After all of that's been done to me
 Could you tell me how, could you tell me how
 Could you tell me
 What's so wrong about what's wrong with me?!
 I'm just trying to do what's right by you!
 What's so wrong about what's wrong with me
 I'm just trying to do what's right by you
 Baby, could you play along with me?
 Baby, would that be alright with you?
 After all of that's been done with me
 Could you tell me how, could you tell me how
 Could you tell me how?