You play the games by the rules
But you do cheat sometimes
The fool is trying to be cool
With his riddles and rhymes

It doesn’t have to be this way
And there’s no use
Pretending that you’re ok
I just can’t last another day
‘Cause it’s your life
And you keep wasting it away

You plan your moves as you go
You-turns and last minute fixes
You just follow your own flow
Keep up the list of your exes

Riddles and rhymes

It doesn’t have to be this way
And there’s no use
Pretending that you’re ok
I just can’t last another day
‘Cause it’s your life
And you keep wasting it away

You know you need to change
When you stop trying and think it’s doomed to fail
You know you’ve got to change
When you don’t remember the times you did it well

You know you’ve got to change
Riddles and rhymes
You know you’ve got to change
Riddles and rhymes
It doesn’t have to be this way
And there’s no use
Pretending that you’re ok