This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
I'd like to start this week without a headache
To go to sleep and have this with me
It seems as if it's never-ending
Why I have this much free time is beyond me
From now on, I'm done writing letters
With words and rhymes that do read clever
At least enough for thoughts still pending
Why I have this much free time
That's what I'm questioning
You have every right to explain
Still, it is hard to hear you say
That inevitable thing
That you're out of your element
The hardest part is you know it
That you're out of your element
Whether or not you were just kidding
About when this would all be ending
If we were stock, I would be selling
Why do you have to say such lines?
When you know it depresses me
You have every right to explain
Still, it is hard to hear you say
That inevitable thing
That you're out of your element
The hardest part is you know it
That you're out of your element
To go to sleep and have this with me
It seems as if it's never-ending
Why I have this much free time is beyond me
From now on, I'm done writing letters
With words and rhymes that do read clever
At least enough for thoughts still pending
Why I have this much free time
That's what I'm questioning
You have every right to explain
Still, it is hard to hear you say
That inevitable thing
That you're out of your element
The hardest part is you know it
That you're out of your element
Whether or not you were just kidding
About when this would all be ending
If we were stock, I would be selling
Why do you have to say such lines?
When you know it depresses me
You have every right to explain
Still, it is hard to hear you say
That inevitable thing
That you're out of your element
The hardest part is you know it
That you're out of your element
Lyrics submitted by blinkingeights, edited by embassyrow
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"I'm done writing letters with words and rhymes that do read clever." The chorus is talking to another person. It says that, yes, even though you have the right to say what you want, I don't want to hear you say that I am 'out of my element', because I already know this.
"whether or not you were just kidding about when this would all be ending" is about the second person asking the singer when he would get out of his writer's block. the next line is "if we were stock i would be selling." This basically means that it is not going to get better soon, and I know this.
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