One Trick Pony

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lyrics

Like the criminal mastermind you know that you are
always playing the victim whenever you can
you'd burn down half of Gotham city just to impress your friends
and I don't know why you thought I'd be impressed
when you set your hair on fire
well I get it
no really I get it
anything self-destructive is a thing I must admire
and it is

well I hope that everything's fine and everything's alright
when your mom calls you sound happy
you'll tell her everything fine and everything's alright
then proceed with all the awful things about me
my drinking my lying my smoking my bleeding
the skipping my classes so I could keep sleeping it off

Like a one trick pony who never got his one trick down
I'll never be the star of the circus
I'll never make my pony parents proud

But I'll say that everything's fine and everything's alright
when my mom calls I'll sound happy
I'll say that everything's fine and everything's alright
change the subject ask how my sisters are doing
with the drinking the lying the smoking the bleeding
the skipping their classes so they could keep sleeping it off

but maybe we'll get along like we used to back in Texas back in high school
but maybe we'll get along like we used to back in Texas back in high school
but maybe we'll get along like we used to back in Texas back in high school
but maybe we'll get along like we used to back in Texas back in high school

when I wasn't singing
I don't want to be Mormon I never want to feel the guilt or pain again
I never wanna be walking from my locker to the front doors of my high school
come face to face with Lydia Anderson
and look her dead in the eyes and lie through my teeth
cuz if she tells her dad what I've been saying that'll mean a lot of shit for me
we're talking meetings after meetings
like Zach and Lauren did
and everyone staring at me as I refuse the sacrament refuse the sacrament

I'll say that everything's fine and everything's alright
when my mom calls I'll sound happy
I'll say that everything's fine and everything's alright
change the subject ask how my sisters are doing

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from HappyHappy, released May 15, 2018

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