bloodstream

Fear lingering, running through my heart like a wild stream Just a little kid, blood flowing into my rosy cheeks Now a river runs red from my knuckles into the sink And there's a pale girl staring through the mirror at me Maybe it's just a dream, wish I could go back to sleep Verse 2 Hydrangeas blooming off the branches on park trees It's a half-hearted calm, the way I've felt since I was thirteen 'Cause I may not feel it now, covered up the wounds with my long sleeves But I know it's waiting there, swimming through my bloodstream And it's gonna come for me, yeah it's gonna come for me Chorus What did you have that I didn't And why am I so blue Someone's talking in my forehead That says, I'll never be like you Happiness is like a firefly on summer free evenings Feel it slipping through my fingers But I can't catch it in my hands Catch it in my Verse 3 Old memories, ribbons running down from my bare knees I ran too fast, fell down on my face in the concrete I guess the lesson's learned, I've barely left my room in the past week And I've got my guard up trying all the time to stay clean I don't feel anything, I don't feel anything Chorus What did you have that I didn't And why am I so fucked There's someone talking in my forehead That says, I'll never be enough And happiness is like a firefly on summer evenings Feel it slipping through my fingers But I can't catch it in my hands Catch it in my