[Verse 1] The alarm is playing its sad little song And I'm negotiating terms that feel wrong Just five more minutes, I swear on my life— (He's already scrolling, don't tell his wife) The snooze button's worn from my thumb and my lies But I'm not ready yet, not ready to rise [Pre-Chorus] (five more, five more) You know what happens in five more minutes? Nothing worth the paperwork [Chorus] Five more minutes, the universal plea Five more minutes, our sweetest guarantee That time will bend, that clocks will pause That we're exempt from natural laws— Five more minutes, we say with a sigh And we mean it like we mean goodbye [Verse 2] The shower's my kingdom, my porcelain throne Where pruning is wisdom and steam is cologne Just five more minutes, the water's divine And leaving feels criminal, staying feels fine But somewhere beneath the exhausted-hot haze I'm aware I've been saying this seventeen days [Pre-Chorus] (five more, five more) And nothing improves in five more minutes Except the guilt [Bridge] Leaving a party's the only time Five more minutes plays out in real time— We stand at the door forty-five minutes deep Saying "we're leaving" on permanent repeat At some point we become the décor Our goodbyes still smell like Pinot Noir The couch is worse—the couch transcends All human notions of weekday and weekend You sit and suddenly hours have passed And five more minutes became five-hour mass Five more minutes is the prettiest small lie A promissory note against the sky— That we're still in control, that we've got the time That we won't grow old past our prime [Chorus] Five more minutes, the universal cheat Five more minutes, our quiet retreat We're not ready to leave, not ready to face The rest of the day or the rest of this place— Five more minutes, we whisper, we plead Then we get up late anyway, guaranteed [Outro] Just five more minutes— We both know you mean it Five more, five more... (five more, nobody's leaving) Five more minutes... (And we still haven't left.)
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