This one's for my shy girls, I swear we're just
Waiting for feelings to go away and love to come our way
It's crush after crush, it's love after love
It's reasonable doubts and breaking all of our vows
So we'll crush and burn wondering when it's our turn
To be loved as much as we yearn and yearn for
Something long-term, we've got so much to learn
We'll wish that we weren't such repressed introverts
I won't crush and burn, won't get in the hearse
This just isn't working when I cast my own curse
On my love life, my confidence, my whole universe
Gotta snap out of it before this gets any worse
Than it is, I wish, that I had my first kiss
Let me out of this tangled-up story, out of these
Hieroglyphs, angel numbers, cartwheels off of cliffs
Been fun but I think that I'm done, think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
Here's to my babes with not much to say
Going on another date and hoping it'll work some day
How are other people marrying their high school loves
I didn't even date till after my nineteenth birthday
So we'll crush and burn wondering when it's our turn
To be loved as much as we yearn and yearn for
Something long-term, we've got so much to learn
We'll wish that we weren't such repressed introverts
But I won't crush and burn, won't get in the hearse
This just isn't working when I cast my own curse
On my love life, my confidence, my whole universe
Gotta snap out of it before this gets any worse
Than it is, I wish, that I had my first kiss
Let me out of this tangled-up story, out of these
Hieroglyphs, angel numbers, cartwheels off of cliffs
Been fun but I think that I'm done, think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy like this
I'm back at our spot, left the front door unlocked
I'm driving to Utah and then to Vermont
And then to L.A., I'm running away
Bring me back if you wanna be my reason to stay
Or get in the car, and let me make known to you
All of my tragedies like how I went through
Being just one more friend that fell in love with them
While they were just one more of my creative obsessions
But I won't crush and burn, won't get in the hearse
I've decided that I refuse to cast my own curse
On my love life, my confidence, my whole universe
Gonna snap out of it before this gets any worse
Than it is, I wish, that I had my first kiss
Let me out of this tangled-up story, out of these
Hieroglyphs, angel numbers, cartwheels off of cliffs
It's been fun but I think that I'm done, think I'm happy like this
Think I'm happy meeting someone new
Think I'm happy like this, think I'm happier
Happy with you


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