[Verse 1]
Lipstick on your collar
Perfume on your sleeves
You laugh it off in whispers
Say they all just leave
I circle like a vulture
Round your crooked grin
You say you’re bad for bodies
I still crawl back in
[Chorus]
I keep chasing your shadow
Down these worn-out midnight roads
You’re a flame in a cracked glass window
And I press my heart too close
You say
“Girl
I can’t be captured”
Still I’m running in your smoke
I keep chasing your shadow
Till it swallows up my hope
[Verse 2]
You call me when you’re empty
Names I shouldn’t hear
You trace me with your fingers
Then you disappear
Your phone face down and buzzing
You smirk
“Don’t make a scene”
You swear that you’re a free man
But you haunt my every dream
[Chorus]
I keep chasing your shadow
Down these worn-out midnight roads
You’re a flame in a cracked glass window
And I press my heart too close
You say
“Girl
I can’t be captured”
Still I’m running in your smoke
I keep chasing your shadow
Till it swallows up my hope
[Bridge]
How many hands on your back tonight?
How many mouths say your name?
You tell me love is just a habit
I treat it like a game
You never promised me forever
You barely promise me a call
But every time you touch my shoulder
I forget you’ll let me fall (oh)
[Chorus]
I keep chasing your shadow
Down these worn-out midnight roads
You’re a flame in a cracked glass window
And I press my heart too close
You say
“Girl
I won’t be captured”
Still I’m running in your smoke
I keep chasing your shadow
Though I know it hurts the most
[Outro]
You say
“Baby
Don’t you wait up”
But I’m waiting just the same
Chasing
Always chasing
What won’t ever take my name