Handcuffs

I'd arrest you if I had handcuffs

I'd arrest you if I had the time

I'd throw you down in the back seat

as if you'd committed a terrible crime.

I'd break in a towns worth of houses

And rob whole families blind

I'd do it to you like you do it to me

If you knew you would get away fine.

I'd drown all these crying babies

If I knew that their mothers wouldn't cry

I'd hold them down and I'd squeeze real soft

To let a piece of myself die.

It's hard to be the better man

When you forget you're trying

It's hard to be the better man.

I'd arrest you if I had handcuffs

I'd arrest you if I had the time

I'd wait for you outside the courtroom

And taunt you

When all your appeals were declined

I'd drive my car off of a bridge

If I knew that you weren't inside

With the pedal to the floor who could ask for more

A fantastic way to kill some time.

You could lay on your back and be beaten

You could put up your fists and fight

You could try and be way off

(Way off

way off

way… way off

way off)

It's hard be the better man

When you forget you're trying

It's hard to be the better man

When you're still lying

It's hard to be the better man

When you forget you're trying

It's hard to be the better man

When you're still lying…

You're still lying