I was ill at the reception; you’re dancing in
Throwing you shows, got you canceling
On your elbows, knees, and thighs
scrubbing kitchen floors as you wonder why
how you used to be fly, you had your own mind
you had your own style, until you stole mine
And now you got his, and that’s dirty kicks
How you gonna walk around with dirty kicks?
But as your clothes would dress the cold floor
And you’re feeling on the insecure
was just a way to get by, it’s just a way to get by...

you did first dance as husband and wife
To a song by someone that had been my favorite in life
To a song by someone that I even told you about
To a song my broken stereo could only play out
The first time we went out, drove back to your home
Late on the first date, without a phone
We rocked pagers like "trekkies and tazers"
Photons and phazers, white folks in blazers
If I could paint those years, I’d need an eraser
Don’t tell me I’m cold, its just my heart is a glacier
But you knew that before...

but you knew that before, is it hard to believe
that sometimes you want me around
you knew that before, threw you back to the sea
that sometimes you need me around

I was packing up my life, no hug on the block
Just a home in a row like a hole in a sock
Never feeling all the brothery love,
Except heading to the club like "baby, gimmie some love"
We get to smoking the drugs, to open our minds,
Laying the tracks, and pressing rewind
it’s a long way spiraling down, when u got a home but there’s no one around
You’ll never die when you’re 22, what in this world would ever want with you
it’s a just way to get by, its just way we get by...