[Verse 1]
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

[Pre-Chorus]
Who wants to be one step ahead
And first to the punchline?
Just one step ahead
First to the punchline

[Chorus]
When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm
All the lines wе won't cross, we bend instead, mmm
Nеver mind all the noise going through your head, oh
'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we said
'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head

[Verse 2]
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 one, let's give 'em hell!" "No, why not love?" you say
"Be too hard and that's not enough in this house of cards"
[Pre-Chorus]
Who wants to be one step ahead
And first to the punchline?
Just one step ahead
The first to the punchline

[Chorus]
When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm
All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead, mmm
Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh
'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we said
And every line we cross, we sing the same things that we sang
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