you're sitting in the chair beside the window
but you envy the ones who avoid the light
that seems to always fall on you
now you see your silhouette
has a realization hit you yet
and you say it's just another mistake
and you're lying to yourself
if you know it's more than a harmless mistake
why say it's nothing else
it's a little like a man sitting on the sidewalk
holding out his hand
he's begging but in his eyes he knows
there's no one but himself to blame
why don't you feel the same
when you say it's just another mistake
and you want us to believe
when you say it's all gonna end up okay
like an ace is up your sleeve
there's nothing up your sleeve
you say it's just another mistake
you pray that's all it is
you say it's just an honest mistake
you pray that awful it is
is a story that you'll tell
twenty years down the road you'll say what a stupid kid
i was a stupid kid
