[Verse] We used to drive all night with nowhere to go, Turn the speakers up till the whole car shook. Your bare feet up on the dashboard at night, My hand between your thighs at a red light. Now we book our weekends three months ahead, talk about sleep, Buy shit we don't need to make promises cheap. You still look good when you walk through the door, But I don't feel the rush like I did before. [Pre-Chorus] We got so fucking good at keeping things clean, But I hate what we've become in the space in between. [Chorus] Sick of playing safe We're alive on paper, but we're dying by degrees. Got a house full of things and a head full of needs, And we're choking on a life that looks perfect from the street. Sick of playing safe I'd rather fuck it up than let it bury me. Break it, break it, let it fall, I don't want this life at all. Wake me up, tear off the tape. I am sick... So fucking sick... Sick of playing safe [Verse] You tell me that you're happy, and maybe that's true, But I miss the side of me that came alive with you. There's a look in your eyes when the old songs hit, Like you miss being reckless but you're scared of it. I see kids on the corner with their whole lives ahead, Talking like the world owes them something instead. And I hate that I'm jealous, hate that it's true, They still think they can change everything they do. [Pre-Chorus] We call it getting older, call it knowing our place, But I see a shimmering fear written all over our faces. [Chorus] Sick of playing safe We keep our hands clean while the good years waste away. Every edge we ever had got sanded down with age, Now we're strangers to the people in the pictures that we save. Sick of playing safe I'm done being grateful for a life I never chose. Break the habit, break the mold, Do something we can't control, No more smiling while we suffocate. If we're going down, let's go awake. I am sick... So fucking sick... Sick of playing safe [Verse] I don't miss being young, I miss not giving a damn About the people who were sure they knew who I am. I don't need the past back, I know better than that, But I'm done letting comfort keep me chained to the mat. If we can't find the fire that we had at the start, Maybe we need to stop living like we're scared of our hearts.. I've become so fucking reasonable, so easy to please, I could disappear tomorrow and they'd barely notice me. [Bridge] So here's the ugly truth that we both avoid: We're not trapped in this life. We just like the choice Of blaming the years, the bills, the routine, Anything but ourselves and the lives we've agreed to lead. I still want your hands on me like you mean it. I still want a night that we don't have to justify. I want to say the thing that scares me to say, And watch you decide if you're staying anyway. [Pre-Chorus] Don't tell me we're fine just because we survived. Look me in the face and tell me we're alive. [Final-Chorus] Sick of playing safe I'm done calling this a life because we made it through the day. We can keep all the comfort, keep the locks, keep the keys, Or admit that we're terrified of being who we please. Sick of playing safe I won't spend another decade begging myself to feel something. You can call it a phase, call it selfish, call it change, But I'd rather face the fallout than keep living half awake. We don't have to be the people that we were back then, But I need to know we're choosing this, not settling again. [Outro] Look at me. Are you still in this? Not because it's easy. Not because it's ours. Because you want it. Sick of playing safe... Sick of playing safe... I'm sick of playing safe...
