The Small Calamities - Waste My Time

The traffic light turned green while you're staring at your phone
A cinematic blur to panicked action
But you know to drive me totally alone
I never learned to swim, I was too afraid to drown
Gasping for your air of platitudes
I'm lost because I found you out
Do you really think I care about the truth?

Don't worry if I'm sad, that's in this season
Put pushpins on the map to mark places we won't go
A checkmark and the time for any reason
Where we can watch the ocean boil slowly down
Evaporating remnants of our youth
It took so long to drown you out
But you linger in the air like your perfume

I'm not getting any older, I'm just getting old
California's getting colder, I feel it in the air leaking through your window
I will fight to keep my title, king of ending up a step behind
Take a look over your shoulder, hold your breath and waste my time

The voice comes loud and clear over speakers in the air
This is the final call for final boarding
Somehow the most pain is failure to care
Reclining half an inch I rapidly ascend, coming close to heaven budget class
All we do is bend our words to fit them into questions we won't ask

We end before we start, it's a Tarantino flick
Fast forward to the days when grass was greener
A flicker in your eyes, a smile that flashes quick, a flutter in the freeway
A reason to just trace my thumb against the wrinkles in your palm
We're everywhere in space, halfway in the storm, and in the calm

I'm not getting any older, I'm just getting old
California's getting colder, I feel it in the air leaking through your window
I will fight to keep my title, king of ending up a step behind
Take a look over your shoulder, hold your breath and waste my time

I'm not getting any wiser, I'm just growing cold
Sick of trying to despise her, I feel it in the air sneaking through my windows
I will fight to keep my title, king of starting off so far behind
Take a look into the future, hold my breath, and waste my time

Written by:
Charlie Wolf

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