Released on June 25, 2025

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[Intro: Ada Rook]

Never thought it'd be this way

Laugh it off and run away (run away-ay)

Never thought it’d be this way (Door Eater)

Laugh it off and run

[Verse 1: Lauren Bousfield, Ada Rook]

I don't need to describe everything

Ache into the night

(Laugh it off and run away)

And the wounds shift as I speak

Cemetery narrative I'll never give you anything


[Pre-Chorus: Ada Rook]

Laugh it off and run, this fantasy of distance

Haunting every one of all my contradictions

I’ve been here before, so many times a circle

Tear it all apart but somehow inside it's worse still


[Chorus: Lauren Bousfield]

This is how it is, this is how it is

It's bad girl

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrenness

This is how it is, this is how it is

It's bad girl

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrennеss


[Post-Chorus: Ada Rook]

This is how it is:

All these years, all thе chaos and fear

Everything done to me still so unclear

If this is how it is does anybody know the reason for it?

I just want some fucking peace after everything

[Verse 2: Ada Rook, Ada Rook & Lauren Bousfield]

Falling again into the nothing

I only really wanted one thing

There's nowhere else that I can get it

It will destroy me

I will let it


[Pre-Chorus: Ada Rook]

If no one can be forgiven

If human hearts are distance

If there is no light left in anyone in this world

[Chorus: Lauren Bousfield, Ada Rook]

This is how it is, this is how it is

It's bad girl

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrenness

This is how it is, this is how it is

It's bad girl

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrenness

This is how it is, this is how it is

(No)

It's bad girl

(How could this be it?)

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrenness

(Stupid basic shit)

This is how it is, this is how it is

It’s bad girl

This is how it is, this is how it is

The barrenness

(Was it only the illusion of confidence?)


[Post-Chorus: Ada Rook]

Everything inside of me

I’m so scared to let you see

What if it just sends you running?

But if I stay unknown

I know all my desperate hope will amount to nothing


[Hook: Ada Rook]

If all the colors of pain

If everything in my way can't stop me

Then nothing ever will

And though this world is a cage

I’m through with running away

I'm not free

But I'm not alone and I'm still here


[Outro]

If no one can be forgiven

If human hearts are distance

If there is no light left in anyone in this world

At least I tried