A round of Russian roulette
played with fortune cookies
Break it open; see what you get
Does it count if I put it back
and pick a new one in its place?
I like this one much better
It s more of what I want to hear
Reread it again over another drink

I can t help but think I ve wasted
All of my time here on this
and all I ve got to show
are cookie crumbs and paper cuts
I can t help but think I m wasted
To spend all this time here
and all that I can show
are cookie crumbs and paper cuts

So I convince myself of
the truth behind my fortune
You know a cookie never lies
It s one of a few good friends
Tells me that soon I ll be better off
and that I ll forget about you
But for now I ll sit and pout
in a Chinese restaurant downtown

I can t believe that I ve wasted
all my time pining over you
Behind my defensive line of bottles
cookie crumbs and paper cuts
I can t believe how wasted I am
I ve spent hours inside this place
Fumbling over papers in my hands
covered with cookie crumbs and paper cuts

I can t help but think I m wasted
putting my trust into a cookie
I don t like what this one says
Disregard it like all the rest
Living my life at the whim of cookies
It s fortune cookie Russian roulette
but if I lose I won t wind up dead
Just goes in the bottle with the rest