Temme Scott - Understudy

I write in verbal sweaters
give me a t-shirt with my name
To remind me of me and my ignorant shame

I speak in broken letters
But I’ll write an anthem to your chest
he'll say “why did she tell me she’s emotionless?”

I want to believe them
I want to cry on the outside fence at your party
And not tell anybody

I don’t understand them
But I'll tell them everything I know
I told him my talking felt more like a show

CHORUS
Why do I
Do this to me, oo I
I’m like the understudy,
I don’t trust anybody

My god, I
I wanna play the lead, ah
this wait is overbearing
Right to your God, I’m swearing:
If this is an issue of meaning the part
Why don’t I act with my heart?

I sleep in wool and leather
I’m tying threads around my neck
Choking on everything they’ve ever said

KnowI’m not any better
but I'll push a needle through their seams
Asking “how do you all speak up so easily?”

I wanna know them
I wanna laugh, break some glass at your home dinner table
Make them trust that I’m stable

I’m gonna have to show them
They’re gonna trust me whether they like it or not,
I’m not asking, I’m telling you - i don’t stop

I’m never holding out my heart
I’m only gripping on the guts I grew last year
in a twin bed, i’m under a tin shed
Its too easy to hear everything

I could fall in the way of an undeserved letter
I’m writing to me, like I need, like I see
how the girl who was fifteen swallowed the steam, the entire pipe dream
to prove to the people that she was a cannon
She lost everything in a fight to just manage some time
with the air they all left
but she lost her breath

Written by:
Temme Scott

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Lyrics © TUNECORE INC

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