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if you're reading this
by delikately
if you’re reading this
this wasn’t me trying to be poetic
i wasn’t gonna write this down
and definitely not hit send
but my fingers outpaced my better judgment
and well
here we are
you and this midnight mess again
it’s timestamped two oh nine
i was lying
i said i’m fine
i never proofread
classic move
i didn’t mean to say it now
not like this
not out loud
was gonna ghost
maybe write a poem
now you know
and i can’t unknow it
if you’re reading this
i didn’t mean to
you weren’t supposed to see the part where i missed you
and especially not the third paragraph
where i said i’d still take you back (delete too late)
guess i meant to lie a little better
not leave breadcrumbs in broken letters
this wasn’t a plan
just a leak
and now you know i barely sleep
if you’re reading this
pretend you didn’t
or read it twice (your call)
meant to send haha cool
not that
not the deep dive into what we lacked
i was trying to be my chill girl era
but then your name lit up the dark
i don’t timestamp feelings right
they burst at awkward hours of night
i swear i had restraint this time
but my wi fi said send
and goodnight
so no
don’t read too much in this
unless you do
and kinda miss
the way i overthink your pause
or play our texts back
just because
if you’re reading this
this wasn’t me trying to be poetic
i was gonna wait till i looked magnetic
not half asleep in oversized panic
you weren’t meant to read the part
about how i’d still take your laugh
i timestamped my feelings for two ten a.m.
but you got them at breakfast
again
if you’re reading this
pretend you didn’t
look away (it gets worse)
yeah
the universe is cruel like that
when your feelings show up
and you can’t take them back
when you’re trying to be cool
aloof
just friends
but the cursor blinks like “say it again.”
just a timestamp full of regret
maybe this is me
un proofed
in lowercase and missing you
but keep that in parenthesis
like it’s not what it was
if you’re reading this
forget the parts
where i named you as my missing heart
let me keep my petty pride
just this once
pretend i didn’t mean to hit your name
or relive our ending in novocaine
i timestamped it like a secret file
oh
my heart’s draft leaked under a lo fi moon
if you’re reading this
forget it okay?
(unless you felt the same that day)
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melodies and half said things
by delikately
we left the building
walked down the street
showed you my phone
our fingers didn’t meet
"know this song?"
i asked
a glimmer of hope in the heavy air
the 1975 playing
you met my stare
"i’m in love with you"
i sang then froze in place
your smile held a secret
a map i couldn’t trace
i’m looking for signs
every time we lock eyes
it pulls me back
decoding your words
for a hidden clue
a sign my confession
broke through
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every note a wish
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
barely a spark
was it fate
or just my heart
telling stories in the dark?
oh
i’m falling through melodies
and half said things
tell me
do you hear
the song my heart sings?
my words spilled like ink
my heart unraveled
out of everyone here
you’re the one i’d choose
your eyes held a storm
but you didn’t move
"i’m in love with you"
i sang it again
hoping you’d catch
what i couldn’t mean
but you just looked down
and scoffed
like love was out of style
i’m reading stars in your silence
every pause a maybe slipping
is it hope
or just my soul
wanting you
where i feel whole
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every note a wish
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
barely a spark
was it fate
or just my heart
telling stories in the dark?
oh
i’m falling through melodies
and half said things
tell me
do you hear
the song my heart sings?
in the quiet
i’ll wait where starlight bends
for a sign
for a spark
for a dream that mends
if you’re out there
feeling this cosmic glow
sing it back
let me know
let me know
if i sing it loud
would you hum along?
or will this stay a dream
just another song?
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every beat was yours
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
you never named
am i brave
or just to blame?
in the quiet
i’ll wait where the starlight bends
for a sign
for a spark
for a dream that mends
if you’re out there
and you somehow know
sing it back
let me know
let me know
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he loves me, he loves me not
by delikately
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by delikately
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god wrote you in my sleep
by delikately
i see you in moments when the world slows down
your smile’s a memory i can’t pin down
you’re in the hush where my thoughts remain awake
a piece of my heart i refuse to break
i tell myself you're just someone i made up
yet i still search through the faces on every street
i’m waiting alone hoping you’ll appear
beside me but you’re nowhere near
cause god wrote you in my sleep
where nothing’s ever what it seems
a memory i’ve yet to live
caught in thoughts that won’t forgive
i hold you like a locket heavy and sweet
praying you’ll be real but you don’t come back
i dream of you through seasons i’ve yet to see
you come alive when time unwinds quietly
when the world sheds its weight i drift away
lost in a dream i can’t quite stay
you fade like a polaroid
a flash of what ifs from years i can’t hold
and the story i write
still slips away
cause god wrote you in my sleep
where nothing’s ever what it seems
a memory i’ve yet to live
caught in thoughts that won’t forgive
i hold you like a locket heavy and sweet
praying you’ll be real but you don’t come back
i sketch constellations in a starless room
your outline maps my scars silent bloom
you haunt the corners where my thoughts still roam
a borrowed feeling i’ll never call home
but still
yet every night i press my palms to dark
whispering god if you wrote him in my sleep
let him wake real
but morning steals you and i’m left to feel
a runaway knight in a half remembered dream
cause god wrote you in my sleep
a secret too fragile to keep
like a shadow that won’t leave
a song i’m still too lost to leave
i clutch the locket bittersweet and worn
praying you’ll be real by dawn
the piano exhales like rain on glass
each note a goodbye too quiet to last
sleep treads the line of real and pretend
i breathe your name no return no end
just hoping the stars might carry the rest
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i'm not in love (totally)
by delikately
i saw you once in line for coffee
spilled my cool when you turned to me
you laughed and my world misfired
outside calm, inside? short-circuited wire
somewhere between your hand and mine
wrote a story down my heart
every blink a wish i keep
every pause a kiss i dream
i’m not in love (totally)
maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s me
still tripping on maybe
your voice reroutes my circuitry
wish i could say i’d live inside your head
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
you asked me once who’s your crush
i dodged with a physics pun
clicked my pen like a metronome
'cause it’s you always has been
my pulse rising like my heart made up
its own laws you’re a side effect i won’t regret
every shrug a hopeful lie
every brush of your sleeve i could fly
i’m not in love (totally)
maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s me
still tripping on maybe
your voice reroutes my circuitry
wish i could say i’d live inside your head
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
you’re the line caught in my throat
the scene i write but never quote
you’re why my phone won’t go dark
a song i write but never queued
i’m not in love (okay i am)
with the way your shoulder brushes mine
and i forget how to breathe for a sec
you’re a side effect i won’t regret
you don’t know and that’s just fine
i save a seat for you each time
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
if you ever read my eyes
see a line you recognize
just know i meant it
even if i never sent it
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astronaut in my own head
by delikately
i drift through days like vapor
everyone talks like they’re real
didn’t say i slipped out of myself
somewhere mid-sentence
still nodding but barely here
memories orbit like satellites
always just out of reach
i feel the crash
before the contact
i orbit my thoughts and land nowhere
a passenger in my own breath
i feel everything
and still forget how to cry
an astronaut in my own head
waving through glass no one sees through
i talk to people like i’m underwater
every word delayed each thought drifting
i’ve mastered the nod
the art of being there
while quietly leaving
i keep meaning to return
but i hover just above the moment
watching it unfold
like i’m not quite in the scene
i orbit my thoughts and land nowhere
a passenger in my own breath
i feel everything
and still vanish in the middle
an astronaut in my own head
half-asleep in full light
i cry in theory feelings on mute
disappear with a smile float
everyone talks like they’re real
i nod like i’m listening
but i’m three exits past the conversation
writing endings in my head
to stories that haven’t started yet
i orbit thoughts like dying stars
still light-years from being known
i feel everything through static and delay
and no one tracks how far i've flown
just an astronaut in my own head
ghosting my own gravity
i’m still here
just not all the way
never really gone
never really here
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fool's wish
by delikately
your lips said hey but your eyes said don’t
i stood my ground played nonchalant
you cracked a joke the room lit up
i laughed too loud you didn’t look
wore scarlet red like a neon sign
you looked right past like i didn’t arrive
thought you’d stop this time you didn’t (fair)
you moved i stayed that’s it (right there)
i lost the words i’d been waiting on
you said my name but the warmth was gone
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
(fool’s wish)
wrote a note slipped it anonymously
i swear i felt it your breath near mine
caught you off guard yeah
aggressive you said for a quiet girl
you left notes in the air i read them all
drew conclusions from your non-committal calls
you loved the thrill of what might be
but never let it become real with me
and i got tired of second-guess chess
of folding down just to keep you calm
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
you said i’m too bold then too reserved
called me livid then walked it back
said i light you up then don’t expect much
your half-praise always came with a crutch
my inner world too raw to let go
a fool’s hope stuck on the question why
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
(fool’s wish)
now i kiss boys just to feel less small
say i’m fine when i feel nothing at all
and your name still stings when i bite my tongue
lips bruised from holding back what i’ve sung
your lips said stay but never meant me
(fool’s wish)
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all nighter
by delikately
i wore the red one just to feel brand new
pinned my hair like i had no history with you
my phone’s on do not disturb
but i still check it every third
glass of wine (i’m fine)
it’s giving thriving… (right)
i danced like i forgot your name
like i don’t scroll it just the same
and everyone says
you look good
and i do i do
i should (i should)
oh, pulled an all-nighter, can’t sleep
this isn’t about you i swear, i’m deep
probably the caffeine or the midnight air
or me just being wild like i don’t care (i care)
nothing to do with your stupid stare
when your photo popped up yeah, i was right there
the way your eyes locked through a screen
not like that still means anything
just coincidence i’m playing our song
not like i’ve been crying all night long
i made a toast and said your name almost
laughed it off, old flame, a casual ghost
laugh-track on loop, but it’s bittersweet
every joke’s got your shadow in my drink
i mean, come on
if i was thinking about you
would i be dancing to our song
in this dress
in your city
with his hands on me
exactly
oh, pulled an all-nighter, can’t sleep
this isn’t about you i swear, i’m deep
probably the caffeine or the midnight air
or me just being wild like i don’t care
nothing to do with your stupid stare
when your photo popped up yeah, i was right there
the way your eyes locked through a screen
not like that still means anything
just coincidence i’m playing our song
not like i’ve been crying all night long (not at all)
“no, it’s not about you”
“i’m just… trying to keep busy, i guess”
“no, really”
“it’s just... everything inside won’t stop”
i’m just awake for something else
i do yoga, i let go, i exhale (inhale, sigh)
not like i still taste you in my tea
or wait for a text you don’t send me
i’m just loud, and hot, and a little depressed
yeah, maybe i saved our texts but i digress
anyway, cheers to being brand new
here’s to the girl who got over you
or tried
or tried
or drank ‘til she blinked
this isn’t about you
(soft laugh)
i guess
pulled an all-nighter, with everything but sleep
danced with distractions, promises i can’t keep
told myself i’m healing, but the truth’s a liar
i’m awake and it’s all just smoke and fire
if i’m honest… i’m nowhere near alright
just wide-eyed, running circles in the night
no, it’s not about you i’m just keeping busy
no, really i’m fine, it’s just a little dizzy
no, i’m not stuck i’m just caught in the spin
no, it’s not you
(keep telling yourself that)
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LYRICS
click the album cover to show / hide lyrics
if you're reading this
by delikately
if you’re reading this
this wasn’t me trying to be poetic
i wasn’t gonna write this down
and definitely not hit send
but my fingers outpaced my better judgment
and well
here we are
you and this midnight mess again
it’s timestamped two oh nine
i was lying
i said i’m fine
i never proofread
classic move
i didn’t mean to say it now
not like this
not out loud
was gonna ghost
maybe write a poem
now you know
and i can’t unknow it
if you’re reading this
i didn’t mean to
you weren’t supposed to see the part where i missed you
and especially not the third paragraph
where i said i’d still take you back (delete too late)
guess i meant to lie a little better
not leave breadcrumbs in broken letters
this wasn’t a plan
just a leak
and now you know i barely sleep
if you’re reading this
pretend you didn’t
or read it twice (your call)
meant to send haha cool
not that
not the deep dive into what we lacked
i was trying to be my chill girl era
but then your name lit up the dark
i don’t timestamp feelings right
they burst at awkward hours of night
i swear i had restraint this time
but my wi fi said send
and goodnight
so no
don’t read too much in this
unless you do
and kinda miss
the way i overthink your pause
or play our texts back
just because
if you’re reading this
this wasn’t me trying to be poetic
i was gonna wait till i looked magnetic
not half asleep in oversized panic
you weren’t meant to read the part
about how i’d still take your laugh
i timestamped my feelings for two ten a.m.
but you got them at breakfast
again
if you’re reading this
pretend you didn’t
look away (it gets worse)
yeah
the universe is cruel like that
when your feelings show up
and you can’t take them back
when you’re trying to be cool
aloof
just friends
but the cursor blinks like “say it again.”
just a timestamp full of regret
maybe this is me
un proofed
in lowercase and missing you
but keep that in parenthesis
like it’s not what it was
if you’re reading this
forget the parts
where i named you as my missing heart
let me keep my petty pride
just this once
pretend i didn’t mean to hit your name
or relive our ending in novocaine
i timestamped it like a secret file
oh
my heart’s draft leaked under a lo fi moon
if you’re reading this
forget it okay?
(unless you felt the same that day)
melodies and half said things
by delikately
we left the building
walked down the street
showed you my phone
our fingers didn’t meet
"know this song?"
i asked
a glimmer of hope in the heavy air
the 1975 playing
you met my stare
"i’m in love with you"
i sang then froze in place
your smile held a secret
a map i couldn’t trace
i’m looking for signs
every time we lock eyes
it pulls me back
decoding your words
for a hidden clue
a sign my confession
broke through
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every note a wish
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
barely a spark
was it fate
or just my heart
telling stories in the dark?
oh
i’m falling through melodies
and half said things
tell me
do you hear
the song my heart sings?
my words spilled like ink
my heart unraveled
out of everyone here
you’re the one i’d choose
your eyes held a storm
but you didn’t move
"i’m in love with you"
i sang it again
hoping you’d catch
what i couldn’t mean
but you just looked down
and scoffed
like love was out of style
i’m reading stars in your silence
every pause a maybe slipping
is it hope
or just my soul
wanting you
where i feel whole
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every note a wish
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
barely a spark
was it fate
or just my heart
telling stories in the dark?
oh
i’m falling through melodies
and half said things
tell me
do you hear
the song my heart sings?
in the quiet
i’ll wait where starlight bends
for a sign
for a spark
for a dream that mends
if you’re out there
feeling this cosmic glow
sing it back
let me know
let me know
if i sing it loud
would you hum along?
or will this stay a dream
just another song?
did you hear my heart
in the songs i sent?
every beat was yours
every lyric meant
i’m in love with a moment
you never named
am i brave
or just to blame?
in the quiet
i’ll wait where the starlight bends
for a sign
for a spark
for a dream that mends
if you’re out there
and you somehow know
sing it back
let me know
let me know
he loves me, he loves me not
by delikately
[ add lyrics here ]
sticky notes
by delikately
[ add lyrics here ]
god wrote you in my sleep
by delikately
i see you in moments when the world slows down
your smile’s a memory i can’t pin down
you’re in the hush where my thoughts remain awake
a piece of my heart i refuse to break
i tell myself you're just someone i made up
yet i still search through the faces on every street
i’m waiting alone hoping you’ll appear
beside me but you’re nowhere near
cause god wrote you in my sleep
where nothing’s ever what it seems
a memory i’ve yet to live
caught in thoughts that won’t forgive
i hold you like a locket heavy and sweet
praying you’ll be real but you don’t come back
i dream of you through seasons i’ve yet to see
you come alive when time unwinds quietly
when the world sheds its weight i drift away
lost in a dream i can’t quite stay
you fade like a polaroid
a flash of what ifs from years i can’t hold
and the story i write
still slips away
cause god wrote you in my sleep
where nothing’s ever what it seems
a memory i’ve yet to live
caught in thoughts that won’t forgive
i hold you like a locket heavy and sweet
praying you’ll be real but you don’t come back
i sketch constellations in a starless room
your outline maps my scars silent bloom
you haunt the corners where my thoughts still roam
a borrowed feeling i’ll never call home
but still
yet every night i press my palms to dark
whispering god if you wrote him in my sleep
let him wake real
but morning steals you and i’m left to feel
a runaway knight in a half remembered dream
cause god wrote you in my sleep
a secret too fragile to keep
like a shadow that won’t leave
a song i’m still too lost to leave
i clutch the locket bittersweet and worn
praying you’ll be real by dawn
the piano exhales like rain on glass
each note a goodbye too quiet to last
sleep treads the line of real and pretend
i breathe your name no return no end
just hoping the stars might carry the rest
i'm not in love (totally)
by delikately
i saw you once in line for coffee
spilled my cool when you turned to me
you laughed and my world misfired
outside calm, inside? short-circuited wire
somewhere between your hand and mine
wrote a story down my heart
every blink a wish i keep
every pause a kiss i dream
i’m not in love (totally)
maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s me
still tripping on maybe
your voice reroutes my circuitry
wish i could say i’d live inside your head
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
you asked me once who’s your crush
i dodged with a physics pun
clicked my pen like a metronome
'cause it’s you always has been
my pulse rising like my heart made up
its own laws you’re a side effect i won’t regret
every shrug a hopeful lie
every brush of your sleeve i could fly
i’m not in love (totally)
maybe it’s nothing or maybe it’s me
still tripping on maybe
your voice reroutes my circuitry
wish i could say i’d live inside your head
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
you’re the line caught in my throat
the scene i write but never quote
you’re why my phone won’t go dark
a song i write but never queued
i’m not in love (okay i am)
with the way your shoulder brushes mine
and i forget how to breathe for a sec
you’re a side effect i won’t regret
you don’t know and that’s just fine
i save a seat for you each time
just long enough to know if i’m
truly madly in love (in love)
if you ever read my eyes
see a line you recognize
just know i meant it
even if i never sent it
astronaut in my own head
by delikately
i drift through days like vapor
everyone talks like they’re real
didn’t say i slipped out of myself
somewhere mid-sentence
still nodding but barely here
memories orbit like satellites
always just out of reach
i feel the crash
before the contact
i orbit my thoughts and land nowhere
a passenger in my own breath
i feel everything
and still forget how to cry
an astronaut in my own head
waving through glass no one sees through
i talk to people like i’m underwater
every word delayed each thought drifting
i’ve mastered the nod
the art of being there
while quietly leaving
i keep meaning to return
but i hover just above the moment
watching it unfold
like i’m not quite in the scene
i orbit my thoughts and land nowhere
a passenger in my own breath
i feel everything
and still vanish in the middle
an astronaut in my own head
half-asleep in full light
i cry in theory feelings on mute
disappear with a smile float
everyone talks like they’re real
i nod like i’m listening
but i’m three exits past the conversation
writing endings in my head
to stories that haven’t started yet
i orbit thoughts like dying stars
still light-years from being known
i feel everything through static and delay
and no one tracks how far i've flown
just an astronaut in my own head
ghosting my own gravity
i’m still here
just not all the way
never really gone
never really here
fool's wish
by delikately
your lips said hey but your eyes said don’t
i stood my ground played nonchalant
you cracked a joke the room lit up
i laughed too loud you didn’t look
wore scarlet red like a neon sign
you looked right past like i didn’t arrive
thought you’d stop this time you didn’t (fair)
you moved i stayed that’s it (right there)
i lost the words i’d been waiting on
you said my name but the warmth was gone
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
(fool’s wish)
wrote a note slipped it anonymously
i swear i felt it your breath near mine
caught you off guard yeah
aggressive you said for a quiet girl
you left notes in the air i read them all
drew conclusions from your non-committal calls
you loved the thrill of what might be
but never let it become real with me
and i got tired of second-guess chess
of folding down just to keep you calm
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
you said i’m too bold then too reserved
called me livid then walked it back
said i light you up then don’t expect much
your half-praise always came with a crutch
my inner world too raw to let go
a fool’s hope stuck on the question why
ooh your lips moved
but not for me
you touch hearts just to leave them be
i’m not a phase or your too-late regret
just the girl you’ll too soon forget
i’m the quiet when your laugh runs out
your lips said maybe but never meant yes
(fool’s wish)
now i kiss boys just to feel less small
say i’m fine when i feel nothing at all
and your name still stings when i bite my tongue
lips bruised from holding back what i’ve sung
your lips said stay but never meant me
(fool’s wish)
all nighter
by delikately
i wore the red one just to feel brand new
pinned my hair like i had no history with you
my phone’s on do not disturb
but i still check it every third
glass of wine (i’m fine)
it’s giving thriving… (right)
i danced like i forgot your name
like i don’t scroll it just the same
and everyone says
you look good
and i do i do
i should (i should)
oh, pulled an all-nighter, can’t sleep
this isn’t about you i swear, i’m deep
probably the caffeine or the midnight air
or me just being wild like i don’t care (i care)
nothing to do with your stupid stare
when your photo popped up yeah, i was right there
the way your eyes locked through a screen
not like that still means anything
just coincidence i’m playing our song
not like i’ve been crying all night long
i made a toast and said your name almost
laughed it off, old flame, a casual ghost
laugh-track on loop, but it’s bittersweet
every joke’s got your shadow in my drink
i mean, come on
if i was thinking about you
would i be dancing to our song
in this dress
in your city
with his hands on me
exactly
oh, pulled an all-nighter, can’t sleep
this isn’t about you i swear, i’m deep
probably the caffeine or the midnight air
or me just being wild like i don’t care
nothing to do with your stupid stare
when your photo popped up yeah, i was right there
the way your eyes locked through a screen
not like that still means anything
just coincidence i’m playing our song
not like i’ve been crying all night long (not at all)
“no, it’s not about you”
“i’m just… trying to keep busy, i guess”
“no, really”
“it’s just... everything inside won’t stop”
i’m just awake for something else
i do yoga, i let go, i exhale (inhale, sigh)
not like i still taste you in my tea
or wait for a text you don’t send me
i’m just loud, and hot, and a little depressed
yeah, maybe i saved our texts but i digress
anyway, cheers to being brand new
here’s to the girl who got over you
or tried
or tried
or drank ‘til she blinked
this isn’t about you
(soft laugh)
i guess
pulled an all-nighter, with everything but sleep
danced with distractions, promises i can’t keep
told myself i’m healing, but the truth’s a liar
i’m awake and it’s all just smoke and fire
if i’m honest… i’m nowhere near alright
just wide-eyed, running circles in the night
no, it’s not about you i’m just keeping busy
no, really i’m fine, it’s just a little dizzy
no, i’m not stuck i’m just caught in the spin
no, it’s not you
(keep telling yourself that)