The ones who belonged applauded you in their own lies

Perhaps if I saw you from the eyes of a stranger I would too fall in loveIf I were out of a small town and you would widen my eyesYou taught me ruthlessly how to surviveOne wouldn't think behind survival I didAnd you burned me to the groundLooking at how the neon lights Light up the streets Maybe we could have been If I was an outsiderYou always loved the foreignersLocals you suffocated If I was of a small villageCame hear with a tiny tiny worldYou'd have set me freeI wanted more than you gave meThe expression of my own libertyI was always too muchRegardless of how you choked meLooked at the streets and every one of them had a tasteEvery one of those looks a flavour

I had a feeling when it was the synergyKept wanting to make myself homeI had this strange formCouldn't fit anywhere you led me toI called out names Met faces and none of them seem to have the cureThey drowned me harder If I was in love with you, maybe I would really have gone down with youThe mud was all over the streets and I couldn't breatheGas and the crowd You and I We never had a chemistryAnd I kept saying it out loudNow that I look at the lights Understanding the beauty they all see in youYour inspiration It was toxicYou had cursed the ones who called themselves locals and choked them in between your two lines I kept thinking and thinking

If there was a place for me hereAlways knowing there was none reserved I was always a stranger In those streets I walked a thousand times And it always felt like it was the first sightWas something toxicThe sadist in me loved it And the masochist cherished We went home together Painted all in red Found ourselves covered in black We knew too muchThe system kicked us out It was always timeout Now that I see the flirty dual lights pass by I see the thing they see in youYet it were never my eyes you gifted the viewYou gifted me the sensitivity Ruthless toxicity and painYou showed me how strongly cruel you wereAsked me to be astonished The ones who belonged applauded you in their own lies The ones who belonged applauded you in their own lies