We Cut Corners - Middle Kids

Until such time as we acquit, we'll remain betwixt
And lead an intermediary life: one that befits the middle kids

Entire childhoods spent in the throes in a small eclipse
And the glare of luminary candlelight forgives the middle kids

So shape me in your likeness: two measures trustworthy, two parts politeness
Build me from blocks that are solid constructs of good conscience and human kindness

I'm the casualty of the gradual abyss, of the casual tricks
I am the (krеmple) of indisciple, and yet, I walk thе world for it

Ambition writ large on brittle lips and idle eyelids
I pity them with nothing in their middle distances
But wilderness

So shape me in your likeness: two measures trustworthy, two parts politeness
Build me from blocks that are solid constructs of good conscience and human kindness

Go on and take your place in the pantheon of fakes
If it's a race to the bottom, maybe better we settle for second place
For second place (x3)

Feeling weak, unwanted, cheap, and perennially cheated
Are some of the injustices that I've attributed to being the middle kid
To being the middle kid (x4)
Am I milking it? (x3)