I lost three months of sleep
Chasing perfect vows
Seventeen brows and windows glowing in the dark
Typed I love you in a stranger's alphabets
Mumbled them wrong into a phone held together by a tape
Hit send at 4.02am with shaking thumbs
Subject line just said headphones please
You reply with one cracked heart emoji
Then vanish before the final refrain
You told me you always dress feelings up in costumes
You never stand naked in a room and speak I
thought if I said it in languages you couldn't
check Maybe the lie would finally sound like truth
Now it's topping charts from Tokyo to Buenos Aires
Couple suede to the A got stitched together
in seventeen tongues I'll never own
And the mouth the world loves is a mind he sings
Ashiteru,
ti amo,
mahapa like he was born inside those words
Every nightclub,
every first dance,
every proposal
Realest dancing on the grave of the night I lost my mind
I saw the video in silent in some airport bar He's
wearing the grey hoodie I forgot at your place
You're in the shotgun seat,
head thrown back laughing While the
bridge I slurred in drunk in Tagalog
Makes you lean over and kiss him at the red light
I handed him eternity in languages I looked up
And he spent it on a knee in front of you
You were right I never said a real thing
I just dressed the wound in reverb in minor
seven So I wouldn't have to watch it bleed
Now strangers tattoo the lyrics on
their ribs In scripts they can't read
And the only sentence I ever needed Was
my own cracked voice saying your name
I'm nothing hiding behind it Seventeen countries humming my cowardice
Back to me in accents cleaner than I'll ever manage
They call it the love song of the
generation I still can't say I was wrong
In the single language you waited for
While he cashes checks for the tears I left
on a voice memo I don't If
this naked version ever finds you
The one with the cough and the wrong stress on your name
The one that ends on a broken chord
Know that was the only time I ever spoke
without a mess Everything louder than this
All the platinum, all the lights
Belongs to the man who figured out
You don't need seventeen ways to say forever One honest I love you
is enough to keep her