would it kill you to breathe?

Thick as Thieves -- Dashboard Confessional

Would it kill you to breathe?
Easy only 17 miles lay between you and me
I could make it if I had to
I don't break easily
You've got my counsel, thick as thieves
If there's a crime we'll keep it secret
For there's only trace amounts left in your blood
You may be a sinner
But you may be justified

Just keep your mouth shut
Keep your guard up
I swear I'll make it right

Will it kill me to breathe
Not as easy as you think it is between you and me
I could fake it if I have to
I don't break easily
I need your counsel, thick as thieves
I have no crime to keep a secret
It was hers, it was not mine
Well I may be a sinner
But it wasn't me this time

Just keep your mouth shut
Keep your guard up
I swear I'll make it right

Listen to yourself
There is a hemorrhage in your mouth
It won't stop bleeding
Well you may be the traitor
I will hold the smoking gun
You'll get away clean
I'll keep your secrets til the grave has swallowed me
And I will never tell a tortured soul they are burning by my side
That I am a sinner
I am a savior
I am a lie

So keep your mouth shut
Keep your guard up
I swear I'll make it right

hmm let me tell you about what this teacher in RI said
remember thursday? andre and i were late for PW
we were talking to this RI teacher
basically, the truth is that the image of raffles, other than with the coffeeshop uncles and aunties who think raffles damn good
is that we're a bunch of proud snobbish asses who have no eq and high iq.
im quoting direct from him....
mbut yeah and the thing is that people don't like those who come from raffles - we're overbearing, we're self-righteous, we're busybody, we think we're the best in the world
so do the rest but ah well.
yes, but we're a common enemy
and the truth is that
although we're all not likee jeremy and his bourgeois tendencies
all of us tend to act snobbish, no matter how hard we try
or rather
we feel like we're a notch over the rest.
while that may or may not be true
the raffles brandname is no longer being viewed as what it used to be.
the school itself (using my own experience in sec school) focuses so much on results and sports that everything else is left undeveloped.
sometimes, i'm even ashamed to wear a raffles shirt, no matter how much i'm proud of the name.
society views us as elitist. why? we are the cream of the crop, yes, we are supposed to be way up there, and people look up to us for possessing that extra bit of intelligence that propelled us up here
but when you look back, society itself has made us think that we are that much better, and because times change, society has changed to think that we are just a bunch of proud brats.
example - i wear my RI pe t-shirts around at home, and when i go to the coffeeshop, my neighbour asked me is it i'm super proud of being a rafflesian.
like i wanted to show off.
as the teacher said - one day in the future we'd see how much the raffles brandname especially is despised, and we'll try our best to defend it because of the so called rafflesian spirit
and the problem lies in the fact that its the so called rafflesian spirit that is making us what we are - that is the thing that makes us special, makes us different. and we let too much of it exude from us.
and thats the problem.

Some ranting today over msn, explains the poor formatting.

*edit* I deleted the extra post, and I would like to comment on comments -
I don't give a shit about how people might see me as self important, see me as a proud egoistic piece of shit or how I just channel the Rafflesian Ego everyone seems to associate Raffles with. I just want to point out that not every Rafflesian is like that, at least, I know examples of those who aren't. I believe that I myself have elitist tendencies, but it doesn't mean I don't have a right to defend my own school name in an egotic way or whatever it may be.