Intro
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[Dodie] ([Lauren, Orla])
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I carry the time we don't talk in a backpack
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Leave it on the side with the nights you didn't call me back
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And all the ideas and the hope I'd never ask him for (hmmm)
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I'll throw it away, it's okay, without a second thought (hmmmm)
[Orla] ([All])
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All the people over there
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They don't seem to have a care
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I'm so fucking self-aware
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It's exhausting
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And no matter how I tried
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I repeat it every night
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Every night, every night, every night
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I'm done pretending
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Pretending, done pretending
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All of my heroes are way more sad than me (harmonizing)
[Tessa] ([All])
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I don't want a piece of that
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'Cause I know there's no peace in that
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I can tell myself a thousand times (cool girl, I'll be easy)
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But you can make a toy of me and I'll agree with that
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Maybe I just couldn't see, couldn't see that
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There ain't nothing wrong with us at all (harmonizing)
[Lauren] ([All)]
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Can I swap places with someone
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Who's kinder to themselves
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Can I swap places with someone
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Who doesn't wanna be someone else
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If I'd swap places maybe I (oooo)
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I'd see myself in different light (oooooo)
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If I'd swap places, if I'd swap places, oh
[Dodie] ([Orla])
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Bm I the only one pretending,
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Pretending, one pretending
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Bm I the only one pretending,
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Pretending, one pretending (ooh I won't be like them)
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Bm I the only one pretending,
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Pretending, one pretending (want me more than friends)
[Dodie] ([Tessa])
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Leave me alone (thought I'd have it figured out by 25)
[Lauren] ([Orla])
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Boy you really oughta knock it off right now (cool girl, I'll be different)
[Dodie] ([Tessa])
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I wanna go home (but I keep on dreaming up a different life)
[Lauren] ([Orla])
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Boy you really oughta knock it off right now (I'll be quiet, I'll be easy)
[Tessa] ([Dodie])
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But you keep on playing games with me, games (Cool girl, I'll be easy)
[Orla] ([Lauren])
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All the people over there, they don't seem to have a care (Can I swap places)
[Tessa] ([Dodie]) (([Lauren]))
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But you keep on playing games with me, games with me (cool girl, I'll be easy) ((can I swap places))
[Orla]
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I'm so fucking self-aware, it's exhausting