How Long Is Too Long – The Get Up Kids

You keep hanging on for more
Building walls around the words around the world
I keep tripping over hints
I keep spilling every secret
Without spilling any secrets at all

Don’t you know?
Of course you don’t
Of course you don’t
The words might choke
How long is too long when you’re waiting by the phone?

Did the issue go this far?
Did you set this higher standard for yourself?
I know it’s not a fault
Though I really have to wonder
If you’d ever set the standard without help

Don’t you know?
Of course you don’t
Of course you don’t
The words might choke
How long is too long when you’re waiting by the phone?

Made up
You win
I’m lost
Give in
To each
Their own
With all their sins

You keep hanging on for more
Building walls around the words around the world

Don’t you know?
Of course you don’t
Of course you don’t
The words might choke

This small town
Takes every ounce
To build its smoke

How long is too long
When you’re waiting by the phone?
When you’re waiting by the phone?