Every Famous Last Word

Alphabet you $20

You'll forget that time in college

On a stiff ledge, announcing something

To a bunch of kids bent on collapsing

"For every famous last word

There are a million last words

That no one's every heard

For every famous last word

There are a million last words

And they're last words that no one's heard"

Well, you got it stuck in my head

I want mine to sound smart

To ring and ring for hours

To break my mother's heart

Cuz there are millions of words

That all sound like other words

I could've sworn I heard

There are millions of words

That just don't work as well as that one word

No, I think I'm cracking up

It's too polished and pretty

Dishonest and lumbering

So you can keep sleeping

Just break my apology

Into sparks in the air you're breathing

Remember when it used to be my air?

Back before we fought so much

And I proved I wasn't strong enough

To convince myself into convincing you;

I was a prince before the hospital, and then

I was a trapdoor waiting to swallow you

I was a picked lock, a broken bicycle

Immobilized and hanging in place

Just nodding my head and hiding my face in my hands

Auditioning my escape plan