[Verse 1: Aimee Mann]
Bedtime stories just got the hook
Allegories that stay in the book
So much was simply over
In the little bit of time it took

[Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo]
So come on and trace me that arc
So we won't have to wait in the dark
So we won't have to wait in the place you lay waste to your spark

[Verse 2: Ted Leo]
All those secrets buried alive
Just a prefix, bees in a hive
And the one thought that you're leaving, is baby, only walls survive

[Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo]
So come on and trace me that arc
So we won't have to wait in the dark
So we won't have to wait in the
Place you lay waste to your spark

[Verse 3: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo]
And now we know when someone owes, someone pays
For lessons frozen in your gaze
Impressing only that no one ever stays
And now there's poetry and prose in your name
It overflows the frame
Trying to impose a theory on the game
[Chorus: Aimee Mann and Ted Leo]
So come on and trace me that arc
So we won't have to wait in the dark
So we won't have to wait for the song
Of the revenant lark

[Verse 3]
And now we know when someone owes
Someone pays
For lessons frozen in your gaze
Impressing only that no one ever stays
And now there's poetry and prose in your name
It overflows the frame
Trying to impose a theory on the game

Bedtime stories, before the end
Tiresome worries, time's not your friend
No thought is recovered
From not a little writer's crook

[Outro]
So come on and trace me that arc
So we won't have to wait in the dark
So we won't have to wait in the dark