While we're on the subject
 Could we change the subject now?
 I was knocking on your ears
 Don't worry, you were always out
 Looking towards the future
 We were begging for the past
 Well we knew we had the good things
 But those never seemed to last
 Oh please just last

 Everyone's unhappy
 Everyone's ashamed
 Well we all just got caught looking
 At somebody else's page
 Well nothing ever went
 Quite exactly as we planned
 Our ideas held no water
 But we used them like a [bad word] 
 Oh, and we carried it all so well
 As if we got a new position
 Oh, and I laugh all the way to [bad word]  Saying yes, this is a fine promotion
 Oh, and I laugh all the way to [bad word] 
 Of course everyone goes crazy
 Over such and such and such
 We made ourselves a pillar
 We just used it as a [bad word]  We were suddenly uncertain
 At least I'm pretty sure I am
 Well we didn't need the water
 But we just built that go god [bad word] 
 Oh, and I know this all myself
 I stood in front for all the people
 Oh, and I know this all myself
 We listen while life hangs on
 And the sound of life's sweet bliss

 Was it ever worth it?
 Was there all that much to gain?
 Well we knew we missed the boat
 And we'd already missed the plane
 We didn't read the invite
 We just dance at our wake
 All our favorites were playing
 So we could shake, shake, shake, shake, shake

 Tiny curtains open and we heard the tiny clap of little hands
 tiny man would tell a little joke and get a tiny laugh from all the folks
 Sitting drifting around in bubbles and thinking it was us that carried them
 When we finally got it figured out that we had [bad word] missed the boat

 Oh, and we carried it all so well
 As if we got a new position
 Oh, and we owned all the tools ourselves
 But not the skills to make a shelf with
 Oh, what useless tools ourselves