The Graduates

E F C E F C E F C E F C E F C We were the French club dropouts E F C But we never got excused from class E F C The secretary must have been high E F C To turn a blind eye on us sneaking out back E F C And we were pregnant on the balcony E F C And you caught me with a cigarette E F C I never put the thing on my lips E F C Just crushed it and spit on where I laid it to rest E F C E F B C G I was the best at being second place D D# A# But now I'm just the runner-up G# F# E F A At being the second one you think of every day A# F Before you go back to one E F C E F C E F C We were the law school rejects E F C So we quarrelled at the bar instead E F C Shot out in four words or less E F C You want a jail, you want a mess, you have the right to drink less E F C Then we were floating on a balcony E F C And I fell into a trampoline E F C I never should've looked for a hand E F C From an invisible pushmi-pullyu pushin' on me E F B C G I was the best at being second place D D# A# But now I'm just the silver you dread G# F# E And only in the shape of a bullet F A A# F Am I ever the shape you see when you wake up dead B G D C A# So will you cauterize the bleeding or bastardize the meaning? Am I'm the one worth seeing D C A# As a waif, a friend, I guess that's the extent Am F More than assisted when you cut inside the paper B G D B C G To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out into the void D D# A# B C G D D# A# B C G I was the best at being second place D D# A# B C G Oh, I was the best at being second place D D# A# B C G I was the best at being second place D D# A# B C G Oh, I was the best at being second place D D# A# B C G I was the best at being second place D D# A# But now I'm just the runner-up G# F# E F A A# F And only the second one you think of every day