[Verse 1]
Lay down all your weapons
When you walk through the door
Throw your hands if you've been fighting wars since you could talk to yourself
No one ever noticed
Never stopped to wonder how'd we get to be so hardened
While the battle scars on your chest
Paint a picture for an audience
You needn't search those quarters
Doesn't pay the bills to talk about yourself

[Verse 2]
Throw yourself a party, invite all of your friends
Tell them it gets scary livin' life on the outside of your head
Thеy say you're going crazy
And never stoppеd to wonder why you never really cared
Talk about the news or weather with a stranger at a bus stop
Making small talk in the morning
Doesn't pay the bills to talk about yourself

[Chorus]
I been thinkin' there's a new way that I ain't like
To be livin' free, talkin', explainin' all the things as you have
Give it all up in the heat of my successes
I been brought up to be always second-guessing
I'd give it all up if I thought I'd be successful
It's got me fucked up, I don't know where I can go
From here
[Verse 3]
Tell yourself a story that you one day may write down
Turn it into something beautiful and tell the boys upstairs you're famous now
Well, they say you're going crazy

[Chorus]
I been thinkin' there's a new way that I ain't like
To be livin' free, talkin', explainin' all the things as you have
Give it all up in the heat of my successes
I been brought up to be always second-guessing
I'd give it all up if I thought I'd be successful
It's got me fucked up, I don't know where I can go
From here, oh