Learning Lines

When things have been said so many times

You repeat back as if you're learning lines

It's so easy to fall into this trap

'Cos once you get there, you can't get back

As I get older I wonder what I'll do

When I make my own choices and they say it's up to you

'Cos right now I'm feeling safe, it's all the same

But in a few years if I'm nowhere, it's me to blame, ohh, ohh, ohh, ooh

Picture frame, books and shelves, not afraid by myself

Metal strings, glowing tubes, Bessie Smith sings the blues

Key and lock, dirty clothes, misunderstood poets prose

Dreaming with open minds, repeating back, learning lines

Learning lines, learning lines, learning lines, learning lines

People around seem to have their heads screwed on

But dreaming's become my life, I'm finding it hard to move on

It'd be so easy if I wanted to charter survey

Knowing my future down to a year or a day, ohh, ohh, ohh, ooh

Picture frame, books and shelves, not afraid by myself

Metal strings, glowing tubes, Bessie Smith sings the blues

Key and lock, dirty clothes, misunderstood poets prose

Dreaming with open minds, repeating back, learning lines

Learning lines, learning lines, learning lines, learning lines

Ohh, ohh, ohh, ohh, ooh

Picture frame, books and shelves, not afraid by myself

Metal strings, glowing tubes, Bessie Smith sings the blues

Key and lock, dirty clothes, misunderstood poets prose

Dreaming with open minds, repeating back, learning lines

Learning lines, learning lines, learning lines