One Off Pretender

[Verse 1: Kieren Webster]
Living on them pills lying in squalor
That's the life of the late night bar crawler
Most outrageous man I met he once said, "I could take a belly full of lead and wouldn't wind up dead."
He wants his song to make you shiver a little like there's a ghost coming your way
Have you ever been told that something's forever, and had your heart broken the very next day

[Chorus: Kyle Falconer]
Shout it from the rooftop
You can shout it from the rooftop
But you can't tell it to the paper, they've already been paid

[Verse 2: Kieren Webster]
To be ten different people that's easy, it's easier than being yourself
I'm the one off pretender I'm not happy, picking life off the shelf
He taught me, time wasted, is time spent well
The mans dead if he doesn't have a story to tell
Dead if he's lying in a dirty jail cell

[Verse 3: Kyle Falconer]
Cause when your down they'll kick you, the jury doesn't matter at all
The jury doesn't matter at all
Tell me officer when your baton kissed me, did it make you feel tall?

[Instrumental Break]

[Refrain: Kyle Falconer]
And no one asked you where you come from
No one told you of these times
And no one asked you where you come from
No one told you of these times

[Verse 4: Kieren Webster & Kyle Falconer]
This is your life don't waste it
Why don't you run away?
A man to reckon with he knows how to persuade
Says you won't get a suntan in this government shade (shade)
Does it make you quiver a little, the way they say (quiver a little)
"We're gonna fuck you, take a little bit of freedom away every day!"

[Chorus: Kyle Falconer]
You can shout it from the rooftops
You can shout it from the rooftops
You can shout it from the rooftops
But you can't tell it to the paper, they've already been paid