"Pen & Paper", otherwise known as "Pen & Paper (Something Typical)", is the second single released from The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus' second album, Lonely Road. The song charted at #75 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the music video of the song Ronnie Winter describes the song as "Taking someone in your life that's fake and removing them".
This whole routine is getting old
So am I
And so are you
My reputation lets me know
I can do whatever I want to
Though it seems that you believe
You can do whatever it is you please,
Know before, know before you wind up on your knees
Don't cry to me no more
You like the way the people stare at you now
You look so fake
Just thought that you should know
You're all the same
And when the curtain drops down
You'll be replaced by something typical
You set yourself up to be sold
And thats ok cuz thats your goal
Manipulation takes its toll
What will you do when no body wants you
Though it seems that you believe
You can do whatever it is you please,
Know before, know before you wind up on your knees
Don't cry to me no more
You like the way the people stare at you now
You look so fake
Just thought that you should know
You're all the same
And when the curtain drops down
You'll be replaced by something typical
I know I stood so long beside you
And I know I should have left you right where I had found you
I know I stood so long beside you
and I know I should have left you right where I had found you
You like the way that people stare at you now
You look so fake
Just thought that you should know
You're all the same
And when the curtain drops down
You'll be replaced by something typical
You like the way that people stare at you now
You look so fake
Just thought that you should know
You're all the same
And when the curtain drops down