Despite the impression I've devoted my life   To this profession, I would flat deny   That I rely on you   I don't rely on you      But these papers that I've helped you write   Throughout the many years in your hire   May be all that I have to   Really hang on to -   So I rely on you   (Life between the lines)      My contributions feel resigned   To being secondary added lines   As if pre-designed   To be parenthesized      And it makes if even worse each time   They put your name in front and bracket mine   I guess they might assume   And yeah, it might be true   That I rely on you   (Life between the lines)      Now it's got the best of me   My life in parentheses   Bound on either side   A second place aside   It's only a fine line   Between the spotlight and the sideline   It's time to knock the brackets down   Turn my life around   And bid you goodbye      Now it's got the best of me   My life in parentheses   Bound on either side   Separately inside   It seems like a lifetime   Of sitting, waiting on the sideline   It's time to knock the brackets down   Turn my life around   And bid you goodbye      I don't know why I don't stand alone   But I'm not quite sure that I can stand alone