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One Step Ahead

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One Step Ahead

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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

Who wants to be one step ahead

And the first to the punchline?

Just one step ahead

First to the punchline

When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm

All the linеs we won't cross, we bend instеad

Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh

'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say

'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head

How can I be so certain in 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

Who wants to be one step ahead

And the first to the punchline?

Just one step ahead

The first to the punchline

When it feels like it's all closing in, mmm

All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead

Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh

'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we say

And every line we cross, we say the same things that we say

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

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