[Intro]
Boot on the floor
Black coat breathing
You want more
[Verse 1]
You carve days
On the back of your hand
Another cheap faith
In a child-proof plan
You sip bright lies
From a pharmacy glass
They say "hold on"
While they watch you collapse
[Chorus]
Hope is life’s bitter pill
You choke it down
Stand still
It will eat you alive if you let it
Kick you in the face
Don’t forget it
Hope is life’s bitter pill
And it smiles while it kills
[Verse 2]
Hallway ghosts
In the waiting room chairs
Blue light buzz
And a thousand blank stares
You trade your spine
For a second-hand prayer
Every "maybe"
Ties a noose in the air
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Spit it out
On the hospital tile
Red in the sink
White-knuckle denial
They sold you a cure
For the ache in your chest
But all that it did
Was teach you bitter regret
[crescendo]
So tear off the label
Let it shatter
Let it spill
If this is all that saves you
Let the darkness have its fill
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[growled]
Bite back the dose
Let the bottle spill
If hope is what kills
I’ll learn to live with the ill