Played Out - A Song for Robert Frost Lyrics

Find the most fulfilling part of your comfort zone
Cast an anchor and tie it tight around your ankle bones
Don't be afraid of an empty house and a loveless marriage
The only thing to fear is dying alone
Buy the car, the suit, the tie, get your affairs in order
Play it safe, play it straight, don't stray to the border
Dust the trophies on the shelf
Here's to you and your good health
Know your limits and pretend to know yourself

Everything that I've been taught is everything I didn't want to know
Impress on me your values
Pour me into your mold
Roads diverge in a yellow wood but it doesn't matter which you take
Both have wooden safety rails and yards and yards of caution tape
Don't be anything that we don't say that you can be
Don't be anything
Don't be anything other than a success
Don't be anything

Settle down, settle in, get comfortable in your dead skin
Call your folks on holidays, tell them everything's okay
Keep it clean, don't make a scene, Glue your eyes to the TV
Tell yourself it's okay to change your dreams

Everything that I've been taught is everything I didn't want to know
Impress on me your values
Pour me into your mold
Roads diverge in a yellow wood but it doesn't matter which you take
Both have wooden safety rails and yards and yards of caution tape
Don't be anything that we don't say that you can be
Don't be anything
Don't be anything other than a success
Don't be anything

Do you remember when your eyes were bright?
Do you remember when the door was open wide?
The years ahead of us are still an open book
The ending's in the back but I refuse to look