If you had eyes like golden crowns
and diamonds in your fingertips
you'd waste it.


If shining wisdom passed your lips
and traveled to the ears of God
you'd waste it.



So I hate that you're overrated,
most revered and celebrated
because you're wasted.



And every time you close a door
and nothing opens in its place
you've wasted.


And when you speak the words you know
to those who know the words themselves
you've wasted.



Such a classic waste of cool!
So afraid to break the rules
in all the wrong places.


~Brandi Carlile