The Graduates Lyrics - Foil Deer - Speedy Ortiz

[Verse 1] 

We were the French club dropouts 

But we never got excused from class 

The secretary must have been high 

To turn a blind eye on us sneaking out back 

And we were pregnant on the balcony 

And you caught me with a cigarette 

I never put the thing on my lips 

Just crushed it and spit on where I laid it to rest 

[Chorus] 

I was the best at being second place 

But now I'm just the runner-up 

At being the second one you think of every day 

Before you go back to one 

[Verse 2] 

We were the law school rejects 

So we quarrelled at the bar instead 

Shot out in four words or less 

You want a jail, you want a mess, you have the right to drink less 

Then we were floating on a balcony 

And I fell into a trampoline 

I never should've looked for a hand 

From an invisible pushmi-pullyu pushin' on me 

[Chorus] 

I was the best at being second place 

But now I'm just the silver you dread 

And only in the shape of a bullet 

Am I ever the shape you see when you wake up dead 

[Bridge] 

So will you cauterize the bleeding or bastardize the meaning? 

I'm the one worth seeing 

As a waif, a friend, I guess that's the extent 

More than assisted when you cut inside the paper 

To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out into the void 

[Outro] 

I was the best at being second place 

Oh, I was the best at being second place 

I was the best at being second place 

Oh, I was the best at being second place 

I was the best at being second place 

But now I'm just the runner-up 

And only the second one you think of every day