Side Effects

INTRO — muffled club bass, rain ambience]

“Don’t text me if you’re drunk again…”

2AM and the city won’t sleep

Blue lights dancing on the concrete

You say my name like you need somebody

Then disappear when it gets too deep

Cheap lies mixed with expensive taste

Your perfume still on my hoodie strings

Everybody says you’re bad for me

Maybe that’s what I like about it

You pull me close just to push away

Leave me dizzy for days and days

You’re my side effects

Late night cigarettes

One more kiss I’ll regret

But I run to you again

Heartbreak on replay

Love me then drift away

You got me losing my head

You’re my side effects

Oh-oh

I should let you go

Oh-oh

But I already know

Taxi rides through the summer rain

You look prettier when you’re hard to chase

Your friends say I should walk away

But your touch got me staying

Red cups scattered across the floor

Same fight we had before

You say we’re nothing serious

Then kiss me like you’re terrified

You pull me close just to disappear

Still I wish that you were here

You’re my side effects

Late night cigarettes

One more kiss I’ll regret

But I run to you again

Heartbreak on replay

Love me then drift away

You got me losing my head

You’re my side effects

“You only call when the night gets lonely…”