We're swept by the dawn, and as we lie awake   You lay stiff in my arms, adrift in the wake   Of what felt less like love, and much more like a take   Of a scene in a movie where the heroine's saved   From her lonely, desperate state      We've dotted our i's and crossed all of our t's   In the script of the lifestyle we planned for our teens   But I'm just a prop that you set for your stage   In a fairy tale romance the critics would praise   If each kiss were performed, as always:   "Once more, with feeling"      But we kids disregard all of our yearning hearts   And make like we're actors just playing our parts   Constructing characters so unlike ourselves   To live out our lives in the artificial realm   Of drama we create      Cause life is a movie we'd all watch again   But just can't bring ourselves to rewind in the end   We make mistakes that we wish we could change   And the things we regret form the coming of age   And I wouldn't want it any other way      So now we're eighteen, and I feel much too old   To continue the farce; to keep filling these roles   As we lie together we lie to each other   We're closer than we've ever been   But i move further from the truth   The longer that I lie next to you      Left my love in bottled letters   Convinced myself it's for the better   To end this, but I'll always remember   I swear to hold my breath forever      (This is the last time I'll ever swear myself to you   This is the last time I'll ever say, "I love you too")