The Graduates-Speedy Ortiz

[ti:The Graduates] [ar:Speedy Ortiz] [al:The Graduates] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Graduates - Speedy Ortiz [00:16.80]We were the french club dropouts [00:19.71] [00:21.09]But we never got excused from class [00:24.71] [00:26.15]The secretary must have been high [00:29.04]To turn her blind eye on us sneaking out back [00:33.03] [00:34.07]And we were pregnant on the balcony [00:37.31] [00:38.38]And you caught me with a cigarette [00:41.73] [00:43.28]I never put this thing on my lips [00:46.42]Just crushed it and spit on where I laid it to rest [00:50.33] [00:58.81]I was the best at being second place [01:02.18]But now I'm just the runner-up [01:05.46] [01:06.90]At being the second one you think of every day [01:11.88]Before you go back to one [01:14.03] [01:24.04]We were the law school rejects [01:26.86] [01:28.16]So we quarrelled at the bar instead [01:31.66] [01:33.33]Shot out in four words or less [01:35.92]You want to jail you want a mess [01:37.95]You have the right to drink less [01:40.26] [01:41.25]Then we were floating on a balcony [01:44.39] [01:45.61]And I fell into a trampoline [01:48.91] [01:50.44]I never should've looked for a hand [01:52.99]From that invisible push me pull you pushin' on me [01:57.51] [02:01.42]I was the best at being second place [02:04.73]But now I'm just the silvery dread [02:08.08] [02:09.36]And only in the shape of a bullet [02:12.50]Am I ever the shape you see when you wake up dead [02:16.60] [02:20.96]So will you cauterize the bleeding or bastardize the meaning [02:26.65]I'm the one worth seeing [02:29.00] [02:29.69]As riven friend I guess that's the extent [02:33.23]More than assisted when you cut inside the paper [02:36.94]To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out into the void [02:44.78] [02:58.82]I was the best at being second place [03:02.24] [03:06.82]Oh I was the best at being second place [03:10.79] [03:15.70]I was the best at being second place [03:19.36] [03:23.60]Oh I was the best at being second place [03:27.75] [03:32.55]I was the best at being second place [03:36.03]But now I'm just the runner-up [03:39.25] [03:40.77]And only the second one you think of every day