Dead Line Telephones

Feeling like I'm living in reverse When I tread a tight rope you're never coming first But while I'm balancing, I don't know which is worse Is it nightmares? Now I've been losing track of my friends lost I was so focused like an F-Stop Cuz my sole focus was the next stop On a red line, 'til the debts gone Turned severed ties to a tightrope As a trade lives to be maestro I paid in time and weigh vertigo While I'm up high, I wave 'bye' below Cat's in the cradle and I'm strung up being tongue-tied Didn't start a label just to stick it to alumni Shoot my shot, reload and lock, this music is a gunfight Losing blood or losing you? I would choose the nightclub life In line at the pearly gates Peter check the list again for my name Rolling up alone, cuz I was packing shows And burning bridges just to light the road Feeling like I'm living in reverse When I tread a tight rope you're never coming first But while I'm balancing, I don't know which is worse Is it nightmares? Or dead line telephones? I know you know that I sold my soul Not to hell, but I pave that road With good intentions. My confession My obsession's more vice than love God look at me while I'm locking in headlines Drown in seas of some models and red wine Found peace but my dove left the nest like It's just me, vanity, and a deadline. Worth it? I don't know yet. No time to fret when I'm focused I'm Superman, no time to plan or hold a hand with Lois. I'm self-absorbed as implosions, and the time I left you on read No time to sleep in hypnosis, I can sleep when I'm dead Dead In line at the pearly gates Peter check the list again for my name Feeling like I'm living in reverse When I tread a tight rope you're never coming first But while I'm balancing, I don't know which is worse Is it nightmares? Or dead line telephones? Dead line telephones Dead line telephones And if I said goodbye would you know I left? The hardest part of growing up is letting go of friends. And would you wish me well, or wish that when I left It was all nightmares and dead line telephones Feeling like I'm living in reverse When I tread a tight rope you're never coming first But while I'm balancing I don't know which is worse: Is it nightmares? Is it nightmares oh Dead line telephones Dead line telephones