Personal Best (Competitive Love)

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
You posted your mile time and I put my shoes on
Before the screen had finished loading your smug face
You beat me to the journal and I read it faster
And summarized it better just to watch you keep your pace

We've been doing this since college and the scoreboard
Lives in a spreadsheet neither of us will delete
Twenty-seven categories and a color-coded legend
And the legend says whoever's losing buys the meat

[Chorus]
You're my personal best dressed up as a person
The bar I didn't set but I can't leave alone
Competitive love is knowing someone's better
At three specific things and training all your own

[Verse 2]
You learned to cook because I learned to cook
I learned piano because you learned guitar
We've chased each other into seven new hobbies
And abandoned four because we both got roughly par

You sent me your promotion with a winky face
I sent you back my raise without a single word
The silence was the loudest celebration
Two people screaming congratulations undisturbed

[Chorus]
You're my personal best dressed up as a person
The bar I didn't set but I can't leave alone
Competitive love is knowing someone's better
At three specific things and training all your own

[Bridge]
The beautiful part is I want you to win
Almost as much as I want to win more
If you stopped competing I would lose
The only race worth keeping score

[Outro]
Twenty-seven categories
You lead fourteen
I lead thirteen
And the tiebreaker
Is who cares more
And we're tied on that too