Also Ran

All the grace you display keeping paper plates up
Spouting vapor
So ornate
While in the caves all the graves of the fates you saved up
Are lying vacant
For you to name

I know you know I know you do
(You better run for cover, there's a price on your head)

It's absurd that the first words you'd even think of
Are fraud and rancor
Filled with blame
You're old enough to realize your hate is made up
It's just fear and anger
Wrapped in shame

And I know you know I know you do
(You better run for cover, there's a price on your head)
I know you know I know you will
(You better run for shelter, they're gonna bleed you dry)

Or it's curtains for the kids
In the rooms in which they live
If the universe is gonna give you more
More than its got to give

Yeah it's curtains for our kin
(They're gonna bleed you)
And every color of the skin
(They're gonna bleed you)
If the universe is gonna give you more
(They're gonna bleed you dry)
More than it bargained for

(You better run for cover, there's a price on your head)
(You better run for shelter, they're gonna bleed you dry)

Cause you're just an also ran
You're a footnote in the sand
You can write and write but at the end of the night
The tide is coming in

Yeah you're just an also ran
(They're gonna bleed you)
You're a footnote in the sand
(They're gonna bleed you)
You can write and write but at the end of the night
The tide is coming in
(They're gonna bleed you dry)

Yeah you're just an also ran
(You better run for cover)
You're just an also ran
(You better run for cover)
You're just the also ran
(You better run for cover)
The tide is coming