Lemon Tree

Album: Twelve Carat Toothache (2022)
Charted: 40 53
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  • Couldn't fall asleep all night
    I tried with all my might
    I thought I knew what you want

    It isn't all that nice
    But I guess it will suffice
    It's hard to know what you want

    Could you be
    A little less sour?
    We're rottin' by the hour
    And my heart's rotten too
    And every film I watch
    I'm on the side of the bad guy

    So turn around and show me that I'm better
    Some people got an apple
    Some people got a tangerine
    Look around and all I see
    Is people happy with what they're given
    Life is pretty sweet, I'm told
    I guess I'm shit outta luck
    Growin' a lemon tree
    I'm gonna burn it down
    And grow me somethin' better, yeah, yeah

    Blood on my hands, I'm on the fence
    I double down
    I swing and I miss, a kick in the ribs
    In trouble now
    Came from the dirt, back in the ground
    When I die
    But I'ma survive, I got my own ways, oh-oh

    Could you be
    A little less sour?
    We're rottin' by the hour
    And my heart's rotten too
    And every film I watch
    I'm on the side of the bad guy

    So turn around and show me that I'm better
    Some people got an apple (some people got)
    Some people got a tangerine (some people got a tangerine, oh-oh, yeah, yeah)
    Look around and all I see
    Is people happy with what they're given
    Life is pretty sweet, I'm told (I'm told)
    I guess I'm shit outta luck
    Growin' a lemon tree (growin' a lemon tree)
    I'm gonna burn it down
    And grow me somethin' better, yeah, yeah

    (And grow me somethin' better)
    (And grow me somethin' better)
    (And grow me somethin' better) Writer/s: Austin Richard Post, Billy Walsh, Brian Dong Ho Lee, Louis Russell Bell, Ryan Vojtesak
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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