[Verse 1]

You swear that you're in love with me

But my silhouette is all you can see

After I've sung my song, that you found so pretty

Still can't own up to falling for a tranny

I can't stand the way that you tried to touch me

Even worse was what I knew you saw when you thought of me

Still I struggle to survive

I can't say the same for you

[Verse 2]

Your distasteful puppet show of sympathy

The shadows on millennial grey walls

You're pulling at my strings, waiting for applause

To spend it in your childish gaze, I am just a paper doll

Spent so long running away

From the ones who love me

Fell into your crooked grasp

I just wanted someone to meet me where I am today

Guess I know the world's answer to that

[Verse 3]

Reeling from the flash of a double-barrel shotgun (Hot Los Angeles sun)

Afterimage burned into my brain (Feel the ash and the flame)

I want to see the sky (Want to see the sky)

Feel the breeze across my skin (Breeze across my skin)

But I'm frozen in a single static frame (Ooh)

Step outside to clear my head

Run it through every single thing that I wish I'd said

I think my fears were always right

Maybe I'm not cut out to live inside the spotlight

[Outro]

I can't stand the way you look me up and down

Another bullet in the list of reasons why I'll leave this time

Still I struggle to survive

I can't say the same for you