Faux Alarms - Backup Plan Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Trust fund baby with a broken smile
Daddy's credit card but I'm running wild
Four-year degree collecting dust
While I'm screaming at shows, God, I feel so lost
Every safety net feels like a cage
Twenty-something crisis on minimum wage

[Chorus]
Don't need your backup plan
Don't want your golden hand
I'd rather crash and burn than live a lie
Sweet little anarchist, making a mess
Of everything they built for me
Yeah, everything they built for me

[Verse 2]
Panic attack in the bathroom stall
While they're planning out my perfect fall
"Get your shit together," that's what they say
But their version of success makes me fade away
Private school trauma, silver spoon blues
Got everything to lose, but what's there to lose?

[Bridge]
Sometimes I think I'm f*cking crazy
For throwing it all away
But these white picket fences
Are suffocating me today
Been drowning in expectations
Since the day that I was born
Now I'm ripping up the roadmap
That they swore would keep me warm

[Chorus]
Don't need your backup plan
Don't want your golden hand
I'd rather crash and burn than live a lie
Sweet little anarchist, making a mess
Of everything they built for me
Yeah, everything they built for me

[Outro]
Call me ungrateful, call me insane
But I won't be another link in their chain
Got my own path, even if it breaks
Their perfect little picture of my perfect little fate
Watch me burn it down, watch me break away
'Cause living on my terms is my only backup plan