Circle The Drain

Album: Teenage Dream (2010)
Charted: 58
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  • This is the last time you say
    After the last line you break
    It's not even a holiday
    Nothing to celebrate

    You give a hundred reasons why
    And you say you're really gonna try
    If I had a nickel for every time
    I'd own the bank

    Thought that I was the exception
    I could rewrite your addiction
    You could've been the greatest
    But you'd rather get wasted

    You fall asleep during foreplay
    'Cause the pills you take are more your forte
    I'm not sticking around to watch you go down
    Wanna be your lover, not your fucking mother
    Can't be your savior; I don't have the power
    I'm not gonna stay and watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain

    You say you have to write your rhymes
    Whatever helps you sleep at night
    You've become what you despise
    A stereotype

    You think you're so rock and roll
    But you're really just a joke
    Had the world in the palm of your hands
    But you fucking choked

    Should've been my team mate
    Could've changed your fate
    You say that you love me
    You won't remember in the morning

    You fall asleep during foreplay
    'Cause the pills you take are more your forte
    I'm not sticking around to watch you go down
    Wanna be your lover, not your fucking mother
    Can't be your savior; I don't have the power
    I'm not gonna stay and watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain

    You fall asleep during foreplay
    'Cause the pills you take are more your forte
    I'm not sticking around to watch you go down
    Wanna be your lover, not your fucking mother
    Can't be your savior; I don't have the power
    I'm not gonna stay and watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain

    Watch you circle the drain
    Watch you circle the drain

    You fall asleep during foreplay
    'Cause the pills you take are more your forte
    I'm not sticking around to watch you go down Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER STEWART, KATY PERRY, MONTE NUEBLE
    Publisher: Hipgnosis Songs Group, Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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