How can you be so certain that you're the one flirting with fire If each choir needs preaching and everyone's reaching Into their pockets to see what they got If not a lot has changed, but if everything's changing Blame to see you sin, but no one sees face-to-face or eye-to-eye This is not how it has to end Who wants to be one step ahead And first to the punchline? Just one step ahead First to the punchline When it feels like it's all closing in, mm All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead, mm Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh 'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we said 'Cause you never mind all the noise going through your head How can I be so certain that my first impressions are mine? If each morning I wake up with circles around me that say "I got mine, I give in, I give up, it's too much" "Come one, let's give 'em hell!" "No, why not love?" you say "Be too hard and that's not enough in this house of cards" Who wants to be one step ahead And first to the punchline? Just one step ahead The first to the punchline When it feels like it's all closing in, mm All the lines we won't cross, we bend instead, mm Never mind all the noise going through your head, oh 'Cause every time we talk, we say the same things that we said And every line we cross, we sing the same things that we sang Every time we try, we play the same old games, it's all been said Now, never mind all the noise going through your head