Only Living Girl in LA

By Halsey

On The Great Impersonator (Deluxe)

Released on October 25, 2024

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[Verse 1]

I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County

I'm the only one who sees (Ayy)

I wake up every day in some new kind of suffering

I've never known a day of peace

I wonder if I ever left behind my body (Ooh)

Do you think they'd laugh at how I died?

Or take a photo of my family in the lobby

The ceremony's small inside

'Cause I don't know if I could sell out my own funeral (Ah-ah)

At least, not at this point in time

And if I ever try to leave behind my body (If I ever try)

Well, at least I know it was nеver mine, it was nevеr mine

It was never mine

It was never mine


[Verse 2]

Well, I'm the only girl alive in New York City

I left my wallet on the train

Since I no longer even have a driver's license

I guess that means I have no name (This is Halsey St)

And I could run away to somewhere on the West Coast (Somewhere on the West Coast)

And finally be a real-life girl

They'll take my organs and they'll hang me from a bedpost

Sayin' I was too soft for this world

And they'd be right, because quite frankly, to be alive

It shouldn't kill me every day, the way it does

I don't know what I did to have this fate, I'm drenched in it

And I can't even run from what I know

My special talent isn't writing, it's not singing

It's feeling everything that everyone alive feels every day

Feels every day

Feels every day

Feels every day


[Bridge]

I think I'm special, 'cause I cut myself wide open

As if it's honorable to bleed

But I'm not lucky and I know I wasn’t chosen

The world keeps spinnin' without me


[Breakdown]

I told my mother I would die by twenty-seven

And in a way I sort of did

This thing I love has grown demanding and obsessive

And it wants more than I can give, than I can give, than I can give

Than I can give


[Verse 3]

Well, I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County

I've never known a day of peace

I wake up every day and wish that I was different

I look around and it's just me

It's just me, it's just me


[Outro]

Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah

Ooh, ayy

Wee-ooh, wee-ooh, yeah-yeah (Let's go)

Ah-ah-ah

I'm the only one, the only one, it's me