[Intro — low]
Yeah… whole world gets quiet around this time.
That’s when I think about you most.
[Hook — melodic]
When the lights go red
And the city’s going black
You’re the only one I want
When there’s no one looking back
I can run from everything
But I always run to you
When the lights go red
You know exactly what to do
You don’t need me to explain it
You can feel it in the room
Everybody knows VEXXX
But nobody knows me like you
[Verse 1]
Two thirty in the morning
Got your picture on my screen
Another night I’m wide awake
Thinking what you do to me
I can spend the whole day distant
Like I don’t need anyone
Then you call and hear my voice
And know exactly what I’ve done
“You’re in your head again”
Yeah, you know me way too well
I don’t even gotta say it
You can hear it when I fell
You don’t love me for the image
You don’t care about the Xs
You just wanna know the person
I’ve been hiding underneath ’em
That’s fucking different
When you’ve spent your life reserved
You make being understood
Feel like something I deserve
[Pre-Hook]
Black clothes, red glow
Your voice coming through my phone
I could have the whole damn world
Still don’t wanna be alone
[Verse 2]
I’ve been good at disappearing
When there’s too much on my mind
Tell everybody that I’m busy
Really I’m just buying time
But you never let me fake it
Never let me say I’m fine
You sit with me in silence
’Til I finally drop the lie
Maybe that’s why I’m addicted
You don’t need the polished me
You’ve seen every ugly thought
And never treated me differently
So if this shit all disappears
And they don’t play my songs no more
Would you still be in that room
Like you were there before?
Would you lay against my chest
While I’m trying to catch my breath?
Would your fingers trace those Xs
When there’s nothing else left?
Desire made me chase it
Destruction changed my ways
But devotion is the reason
I keep choosing you each day
[Bridge — breaking vocal]
And if you ever leave…
Don’t ask me to forget you.
You met the man beneath the name
And loved him when he hated himself.
So how the fuck do I go back
To being someone you don’t hold?
Everybody else can lose VEXXX…
But if I lose you,
I lose the only place
I’ve ever felt like I could be me.
That’s what fucking scares me.
Not being alone…
Knowing you existed
And having to live without you.
[Final Hook]
When the lights go red
And the city’s going black
You’re the only one I want
When there’s no one looking back
I can run from everything
But I always run to you
When the lights go red
You know exactly what to do
You don’t need me to explain it
You can feel it in the room
Everybody knows VEXXX
But nobody knows me like you
[Outro — whispered]
Desire wants you.
Devotion keeps you.
Every wall I built?
You destroyed it.