Smoke

Every time your dreams fix lately

You're falling off of some sky-scraping

Edifice you hate

That's just your brain of late

It likes to lock in images you

Parallel with some strange issue

That's got you by the throat

Heaven knows you choke

Usher in a fleeting feeling

Kissing someone and you mean it

Cos when you don't, it hurts your bones

Probably should've stayed at home

Picture someone's face you love

Interrupting hands stink of

Smoke

You paint a smiling countenance

You think will please the audience

But no-onе knows you're dying inside

To step out from thе light

And slip into a shadow where

No-one's even breathing there

You've got your own back, that's not sad

You're the best friend you've ever had

So why make it so hard for yourself?

We can all see what it's done to your health

Behind the smile, a subtle lie

Each and every time

You're slipping into a pool of pretext

Everybody knows what comes next

How you gonna love someone else

If you can't love yourself

You set a schedule, tick it off

Delineate a separate box

For feelings what you wish would stop

And everything you're not

But we love you like a little brother

Who makes even the shittest weather

Shine down as if god wants us

To live as if we're new in love

You paint a smiling countenance

You think will please the audience

But no-one knows you're dying inside

To step out from the light

And slip into a shadow where

No-one's even breathing there

You've got your own back, that's not sad

You're the best friend you've ever had

So why make it so hard for yourself?

We can all see what it's done to your health

Behind the smile, a subtle lie

Each and every time

You're slipping into a pool of pretext

Everybody knows what comes next

How you gonna love someone else

If you can't love yourself?

If you can't love yourself

If you can't love yourself

How you gonna love someone else

If you can't love yourself?