All this concern over these cards overturned   The cold light shows too much   Bruise-colored blood who's getting to rush      Smoke made it clear   Holding in the worst   Gives shape to the fear   As they sang along, the chorus and verse      The shake of the shame   But it hangs around your name   For the first time you're afraid   And you take what they left   Choke on their success   But you're nothing anyway      The way I mistook   How an overbite might look   Like a smile on the face of a girl   And the way she's hating the world      Strength in the arms   Pulling empty hall alarms   But nobody heard   In a room where they wait and rehearse      The shake of the shame   But it hangs around your name   For the first time you're afraid   And you take what they left   Choke on their success   But you're nothing anyway      It's getting too much   The bruise-colored blood was beginning to rush      The shake of the shame   But it hangs around your name   For the first time you're afraid   And you take what they left   Choke on their success   But you're nothing anyway