Sympathy Magic

Album: Everybody Scream (2025)
Charted: 62
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  • Memory fails me, names and faces blur
    There is only after or before
    Am I so different, have I changed?
    I do not recognize my face
    The scar fades but pulls inside
    Tugging at me all the time
    Chewing on a feeling and spitting it out
    Crouched in a ball gown
    Anxious and ashamed
    The vague humiliations of fame

    I do not find worthiness in virtue
    I no longer try to be good
    It didn't keep me safe
    Like you told me that it would
    So come on, tear me wide open
    A terrible gift
    Let the chorus console me
    Sympathy magic

    And light coming in the window just so
    And the wind through my fingers
    The only God that I know
    And it does not want me on my knees to believe
    Head high, arms wide
    Aching-aching-aching

    And alive
    And alive
    So I don't have to be worthy
    I no longer try to be good
    It didn't keep me safe
    Like you told me that it would
    So come on, tear me wide open
    'Til I'm losing my mind
    'Til I cannot contain it
    La-da-da-da-da-da-da

    So come on, come on, I can take it
    Give me everything you got
    What else, what else, what else, what else
    So come on, come on, I can take it
    Give me everything you got
    What else, what else, what else, what else

    Sympathy magic
    Sympathy magic
    So come on, come on, I can take it
    Sympathy magic
    Sympathy magic
    So come on, come on, I can take it
    (Come on, come on, come on, come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on, come on, come on, come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on, come on, come on, come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on, come on, come on, come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on, come on, come on, come on)
    Sympathy magic (come on)
    Ah Writer/s: Danny L Harle, Florence Leontine Mary Welch
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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