My days are numbered Hours fit in little boxes Cross them off Another month goes by If times a healer Then I should be feeling better It's been a while since I stretched a smile The safest place A box inside a box Tucked away Just forgotten déjà vu Everything Lit up in high definition Our sin on some flimsy plastic A green screen Apocalypse scene It never seemed so real You could reach out and grab it You could reach out and grab it You used to keep Jars full from the mill pond Tiny universes Sitting on your shelf Hold them tight Up against the light They glisten if you listen You said Hear that tiny life? From one to ten How was your experience? Please bear in mind these drugs can have alarming side effects This modern life Is always on my mind Dumping poison in the water Eat the Teflon off the knife From one to ten How many of your friends Can vouch for you if coming to your inevitable end? When the clock stops and the lights are turned off Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying? Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked For when the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving When the clock stops and the lights are turned off Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying? Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked For when the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving I'm tearing up my love letters I'm leaving all the dishes in the sink I'm leaving all the doors left open If our futures hanging on the brink Coughing up thoughts in a box double locked Until the news gets dropped that nobody's surviving When the clock stops and the lights are turned off Who’s gonna be the ones to stop this place from dying?