[Verse 1]
Pink birthday dress at the crime scene line
Frosting on my hands
Not your alibi
We were swapping dares like trading cards
You drew a skull
On my beating heart
[Pre-Chorus]
You said
"Promise
This stays fun"
Plastic rings
Loaded tongues
Every secret like a glass balloon
Too sharp
Too soon
[Chorus]
It was all fun and games in the kitchen light
Spinning in circles on a sugar high
Now we’re chalk outlines in a nursery rhyme
Cotton candy crime scene
We crossed that line
Tell me who’s the villain in the final page?
Who walks away and who just stays?
We lost our halos
One by one
In this cotton candy crime scene
Where innocence runs
[Verse 2]
Candy-apple knife in the party punch
You laughed first
Said
"It’s just a stunt"
But the joke stuck deeper than the blade
Every truth you told
Cut the other way
[Pre-Chorus]
We were writing endings in the bathroom mirror
Lipstick clues
Spelled out "near"
Every giggle like a warning sign
Still we stepped
In time
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] If this was a show
They’d frame it wide
Close-up tears
Perfect light
Rewrite the script
Let the good girls win
Fade to black
Roll credits then
But we’re off-book kids in a borrowed dress
Bloody bows
And broken chess
[whispered vocals] Checkmate
Sweetheart
You picked him
Not me
We’re the twist
They didn’t see
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Slow dance on the scene
Blue tape
Cold breeze
You leave with him
Hand in sleeve
I stay behind
Stained and sweet
Bittersweet farewell
In my teeth