Here's What It Takes

Here's what it takes to survive

Saturday's fever means you're staying alive, of course

An 8-ball of coke, you're angry and broke

My mother misspoke by telling me the truth

Here's what it takes to believe

Drink down the Drano 'til the demons all leave, I won't go

I told you I don't want to know

Here's what it takes to regret

Wake up sleepwalking in your father's footsteps

The fridge door was open again, there's leftover blame

You're eating your shame and choking on the truth

Here's what it takes to be heard

And we rejoin us to discouraging words, I won't go

I told you I don't want to know

Oh whoa whoa

Oh whoa whoa

Oh whoa whoa

What we once kept hidden from our parents (Oh whoa whoa)

Now we keep it hidden from our kids (Oh whoa whoa)

No second chances ever in this life (Oh whoa whoa)

Just another chance to make the same mistake twice (Oh whoa whoa)

Here's what it takes to deny

Let's make a movie 'bout a hardworking guy who wastes time

With family and friends and likes to pretend

That when it all ends he is closer to the truth

And if the least you can do

You fail your parents like you think they failed you, and let go

I told you I don't want to know, no

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(Here's what it takes to forget)

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(Here's what it takes from you yet)

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(Here's what it takes to believe)

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(Here's what it takes from you and me)

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