On the Page

"...and he sort of used me as a way out of it in saying, I'm in love with Anastasia, I can't be with you anymore Sarah, I'm so sorry but just realizing this, even though nothing's gonna come out of it, I just know that it wouldn't be true to you. And of course we were on acid in a Hilton at a um, science-fiction convention."

Tell me something stupid
Auction off my diary
Life is getting esoteric
Let me in your movie
Each time I walk out the door
Someone mixes metaphors
Life is so much cleaner on the page

It's like the morning when I'm dreaming
And everything is so pristine
It's just a seven hour movie
And I'm in every scene

"I don't even want to be with Max you know, whatever."

Let me in my TV
Get this tape to Tori
Got to have a subplot
When I sell them my life story
Maybe I should write it first
And do the living later
'cause life is so much cleaner on the page

It's like the time I lost my body
And then I saw it on TV
Somehow it shed a whole dimension
But it still looked like me
(hey! that looks like me!)

Each time I write lines for it
Someone improvises it
Life is so much cleaner on the page
Life is so much cleaner on the page

"I guess if you really want to know someone, you make yourself vulnerable... and get to know people then you can't leave 'cause you don't want to, to lose them, and you know that when they come back, they've had..."