Best Man (At Your First Loves Wedding)

[Verse 1]
Making plans is like making the bed, you know that they're gonna get messed up yet
And all your dreams and all your hopes, they'll get spent like money, blown away like smoke
But if I truly felt that this was so I'd have quit years ago
So if I've got bad luck at least it's my luck and I can take it with me when I go

[Verse 2]
Well life is maths and life is debt and I'm still living in deficit
And I want to graph out of the red and get my head into the clouds again
But life lived without money is better than a life lived with regret
So if that's my good luck I guess it's my luck

[Chorus]
'Cause all those mysteries of youth
They get solved by the years, now you're living proof
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed
And all your old loves became wives
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man
They made you the best man

[Verse 3]
So if you lose it once you can find it twice, just hold on tight this time
But if you burn like me inside I know you'll never be satisfied
Just don't spread yourself too thin kid or there'll be little left of anything
And that would be bad luck, yeah that would be bad luck

[Chorus]
'Cause all those mysteries of youth
They get solved by the years, now you're living proof
Of good seeds grown to fallow fields
And now you're starving down here with your ribs revealed
And all your old loves became wives
Of an unimpassioned population hugging the white line
You could have gone east and you could have gone west
But you stuck to the middle so they made you the best man
Yeah, they made you the best man

[Instrumental]

[Chorus]
Oh and a life without fire is a firing squad
I'm not going to heaven 'cause I've never known God
But I do believe there's something more
And I do have a clue what I've been looking for
One day I want to find the breach
Between the things that I want and the things that I need
When I get there, will I know?
Well I'm thinking that I don't think so
I just don't want to be the best man

[Verse 4]
Just when you think you've got nothing left to write about, well here she comes
And just when you think you might've snared a good one you're back on the run
But I'll keep breaking choices down until I'm only left with one