Karaoké Bravado Lorde

All my life

I've been fighting a war

I can't talk to you or your friends

It's not only you my heart jumps around when I'm alluded to

This will not do

'Cos I was raised up to be admired, to be noticed

But when you're withdrawn it's the closest thing

To assault when all eyes are on you

This will not do

Oh oh oh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh ooh ooh oh oh oh oh oh

I'm faking glory lick my lips toss my hair

And send a smile over and the stories brand new

But I can take it from here

I'll find my own bravado

It's a switch flipped it's a pill tipped back it's a moon eclipsed oh oh

And I can tell you that when the lights come on

I'll be ready for this

It's in your blood stream a collision of atoms that happens before your eyes

It's a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size

I was frightened of every little thing that I thought was out to get me down

To trip me up and laugh at me but

I learnt not to want the quiet of the room with no one around to find me out

I want the applause the approval, the things that make me go oh

It's a switch flipped it's a pill tipped back it's a moon eclipsed oh oh

And I can tell you that when the lights come on

I'll be ready for this

It's in your blood stream a collision of atoms that happens before your eyes

It's a marathon run or a mountain you scale without thinking of size

I was frightened of every little thing that I thought was out to get me down

To trip me up and laugh at me but

I learnt not to want the quiet of the room with no one around to find me out

I want the applause the approval, the things that make me go oh