Special

Album: Attention Attention (2018)
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  • Hurry up before you go and get old
    Hurry up before your blood runs cold
    None of us were ever meant to stay
    We're all gonna find out one day

    You see life's too short to run it like a race
    So it's never gonna matter if you win first place
    'Cause we're all the same

    Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame
    'Cause you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade
    But you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to bring to you down
    I'm not tryin' to sound so inaffectual
    But you're not special

    Hurry up before the bottle kicks in
    Before the poison and the pain sets in
    If you take it down a notch and you let me explain
    That on this earth we are all the same

    And all I can say is

    Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame
    'Cause you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade
    But you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to bring to you down
    I'm not tryin' to sound so inaffectual
    'Cause you're not special

    We all live to love, we all fall apart
    We'd all go to war for the faint of heart
    Instead we're condescending
    There are no happy endings
    I won't hold my breath, I won't cast a doubt
    I'd never sell you out
    But I'll give you one last chance to own it
    'Cause you're not a god or a poet, so

    Stop waitin' on your fifteen minutes of fame
    'Cause you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to rain on your parade
    But you're not special
    I'm not tryin' to bring to you down
    I'm not tryin' to sound so ineffectual
    But you're not special

    Get up, get up
    Get a move on
    Get up, get up
    But you're not special
    Get up, get up
    Get a move on
    Just know that, just know that
    But you're not special

    'Cause you're not special
    'Cause you're not special Writer/s: BRENT SMITH, ERIC BASS, SCOTT STEVENS, ZACHARY MYERS
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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