Ego

Album: The Great Impersonator (2024)
Charted: 118
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  • I'm caught up in the everyday trend
    Tied up by invisible thread
    Walking down a razor-thin edge
    And I wake up tired, think I'm better off dead
    Been a few months since I crossed over state lines
    Talk to my mom, fake smiles over FaceTime
    Drink all night 'til I can't walk a straight line
    Feel so low but I'm high at the same time

    I can't keep my feet on the ground
    And I'm nervous what you'll think of me now
    I'm hoping that someone comes around
    And helps me figure it out

    I think that I should try to kill my ego
    'Cause if I don't, my ego might kill me
    I'm all grown up but somehow lately
    I'm acting like a fucking baby
    I'm really not as happy as I seem

    Still a little kid that can't make friends
    Wanna be invited, but I won't attend
    I've been having bad dreams my career could end
    'Cause I slip up when I should've played pretend
    Turned eighteen and I left the city
    I said, "I wanna be cool, I don't wanna be pretty"
    Voices all came crashing down
    And said, "You're too nice to run this town"

    I can't keep my feet on the ground
    And I'm nervous what you'll think of me now
    I'm hoping that someone comes around
    And helps me figure it out

    I think that I should try to kill my ego
    'Cause if I don't, my ego might kill me
    I'm all grown up but somehow lately
    I'm acting like a fucking baby
    I'm really not as happy as I seem
    Nothing's as it seems
    Yeah, nothing's as it seems
    And I'm all grown up but somehow lately
    I'm acting like a fucking baby
    I'm really not that happy being me

    I don't like the lie I'm living
    I'm way too nice and too forgiving
    I wanna go back to the beginning
    When it all felt right
    A rooftop, Lower East Side, I'm singing
    Didn't give a fuck if I was winning
    It's all done now, so who am I kidding?
    I'm doing way worse than I'm admitting

    I think that I should try to kill my ego
    'Cause if I don't, my ego might kill me
    I'm all grown up but somehow, lately
    I'm acting like a fucking baby
    I'm really not as happy as I seem
    But nothing's as it seems
    Yeah, nothing's as it seems
    And I'm all grown up but somehow lately
    I'm acting like a fucking baby
    I'm really not that happy being me Writer/s: Ashley Nicolette Frangipane, Greg Kurstin, Gregory Hein
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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