you wait for another opportunity to speak he looks for another way to bank same affirmation that you get same way you treat everyone you used to know like shit high achieving like they all say that you are but you and i both know who sets that bar don t we we can t see through the shrouds we don t notice so replay the sequence we re playing buzzword make believe again just to get ahead and we say pathological liar like it s something rare we tiptoe through the restaurants waiting on each other the only way to show we care and everything s going according to an age old plan tag alongs righting wrongs we join indifferent hands and we say pathological liar like it s something rare and you can paint over guilty but it s starting to show and i want you to know that measuring stick broke a long time ago