We Were a Roman Candle

It's 10 to 5, you probably should start walking
Or else you won't get home before it gets light

So if the Earth should spin right off its axis
And roll out into space you'd be wrapped up tight
So if it all came tumbling down
You wouldn't be aware, you wouldn't hear a sound
And when the walls come crashing in
Leaving pock marks where our houses should have been

I could have been more cautious
I could have been less kind
I should have held my tongue until I knew that it was right
I could have been more careful
I wonder if you tried
To brace yourself from falling
To compete with my high
But there's no happy ending
Won't be a big surprise

We were a roman candle, we burned out in the night
This is fact not fiction
Should have held them in your lungs
The words I said are spinning, reeling
The way that youse wait a turn

I could have been more cautious
I could have been less kind
I should have held my tongue until I knew that it was right
I could have been more careful
I wonder if you tried
To brace yourself from falling
Needless of my high
But there's no happy ending
Won't be a big surprise

We were a roman candle, and we burned out in the night
This is fact not fiction
Should have held them in your lungs
The words I said are spinning, reeling
The way that youse wait a turn
Words. Mean. Say

Only fools
Only fools rush in
And I'm no fool