Downtown Love

Album: These Things Happen (2014)
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  • Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Just wonderin' if you notice me
    Just wonderin' if you notice me

    Yeah

    Wood floors in your Soho apartment
    Every morning always roll one and spark it
    Credit cards left on your glass table
    You been wildin' since I met you last April
    A beautiful, outgoing, alcoholic, socialite
    Like the way I talk to you, I was so polite
    Always claimin' that you're not the type to notice hype
    But that's the reason why we kicked it and you know it's right
    I was your Bob Dylan, you were my Edie Sedgwick
    But where I used to see beauty, now I just see pathetic
    It was fun while it lasted but you'll never get it
    You're living in your own world, where love is all synthetic
    Yeah, and now you walk around woefully
    For a minute thought about forever like it's Jodeci
    But now you're spiraling and falling over hopelessly
    And I just wonder if you notice me, yeah

    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Just wonderin' if you notice me
    Just wonderin' if you notice me

    And you're just spending your allowance cash
    On some shopping sprees, drinks, and a powder stash
    But it drains like the sand in an hour glass
    And when it does is when I see you turnin' sour fast
    Free falling from the sky 'till the gravel caught us
    Spending cash, burning holes in her fragile pockets
    Doin' drugs on the surface of Apple products
    Started beautiful but look at where havoc brought us
    And it was fun but I could never be the one for you
    You're never happy, always looking 'round for something new
    But it was unbelievable when I was fucking you
    Thought that I was momentarily in love with you
    Nah, see you're in love with material
    And even more in love with attention
    Walking through life so eager for affection
    And never really was a connection, nah

    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love
    Just wonderin' if you notice me
    Just wonderin' if you notice me

    So in love with the scene she was
    4 AM is when she leaves clubs
    She's

    In love with fashion, still trying to be Audrey Hepburn
    Grabs a check, but she spends what she hasn't yet earned
    Life's a bitch, if you play with fire you get burned
    The road to riches could throw you off at the next turn
    Yeah, poor little rich girl
    Cries her eyes out, it's all part of the show
    Fell in love with the fast life but started it slow
    Loves creative types, slept with every artist she know
    Comes from high society, but they frown on her actions
    Instagrams half naked, how she sounds in her captions
    Always snobby and conceited, she knows what the deal is
    Wants to party, thumbs through a roll of decks for the dealers yeah
    'Cause she said the high was divine
    The first time is when she kept on searching trying to find
    Scared to lose it all but everything was nothing inside
    Couldn't face the truth but everyone's got something to hide
    It's ironic how conscious she is of how she appear
    Two hours getting dressed but still can't look herself in the mirror
    Making poor choices, even at her wealthiest year
    Was a fast lifestyle that no one helped her to steer, yeah

    Downtown love
    Don't want none of your downtown love Writer/s: Christopher Reiner Andersson, Devon Baldwin, Gerald Gillum, John Michael Rouchell
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Word Collections Publishing
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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