[Verse 1] Wakeful aching early mornings
Prise the desperation from your hands
Leaning out of bedroom windows
Books and hooks we steal from last night’s bands

Take a girl’s name for the chorus
Repetition and repetition
Write it on a piece of paper
Add some words that I don’t understand

[Chorus] Just drinking formula
Everything is wasted
We're drinking formula
Everything is wasted

[Verse 2] Seven years:
Seven years of implication
Debonair
Critically self-effacing
Unaware:
Unaware of hours we’ve wasted
Far from here
Soluble from weeks spent

[Chorus 2] Drinking formula
Everything is wasted
We're drinking formula
Everything is wasted

[Verse 3] Cold and clear
Sentiment is spent
It’s closure
I’m a tear
Rolling down
An endless cheek
A metaphor
I’ll disregard
With total mercy

[Verse 2] [Outro] Drinking formula
Everything is wasted
You’re drinking formula
Everything is wasted