Together We Could Be Nothing

I'll be your voluntary hostage For you it's just as frightening And the ransom you demand Pretend the capture's something I invited But we are making progress You slid a meal under the door In exchange for a slip of the tongue So you can nail it down once more And this is coming Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your most dependable ear to bend About some alien opinion and I swear this is Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your bottomless waste bin Go ahead and throw me in With wadded up balls of trends and -isms It's Stockholm syndrome With a spirited contrarian Before you've uttered anything you've proven your point Now let's eat our silent dinner You say you couldn't live without That chip upon your shoulder I concur, beyond a shadow of a doubt Your blood couldn't run any colder And this is coming Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your most dependable ear to bend About some alien opinion and I swear this is Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your bottomless waste bin Go ahead and throw me in With wadded up balls of trends and -isms Yeah, we get along Though you're invincible when you're wrong We're pulling the strings in song Together we could be nothing Since nothing seems to come so naturally And this is coming Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your most dependable ear to bend About some alien opinion and I swear this is Coming from a friend Sorry, I mean Your bottomless waste bin Go ahead and throw me in