What Was That

Album: Virgin (2025)
Charted: 11 36
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  • A place in the city, a chair and a bed
    I cover up all the mirrors, I can't see myself yet
    I wear smoke like a wedding veil
    Make a meal I won't eat
    Step out into the street, alone in a sea
    It comes over me
    Oh, I'm missing you
    Yeah, I'm missing you
    And all the things we used to do

    MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up
    We kissed for hours straight, well, baby, what was that?
    I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life"
    Well, I want you just like that
    Indio haze, we're in a sandstorm, and it knocks me out
    I didn't know then that you'd never be enough, oh
    Since I was seventeen, I gave you everything
    Now, we wake from a dream
    Well, baby, what was that?

    What was that?
    Baby, what was that?

    Do you know you're still with me, when I'm out with my friends?
    I stare at the painted faces that talk current affairs
    You had to know this was happening, you weren't feeling my heat
    When I'm in the blue light, down at Baby's All Right
    I face reality
    I tried (I tried) to let (to let)
    Whatever has to pass through me, pass through
    But this is staying a while, I know
    It might not let me go

    MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up
    We kissed for hours straight, well, baby, what was that?
    I remember saying then, "This is the best cigarette of my life"
    Well, I want you just like that
    Indio haze, we're in a sandstorm, and it knocks me out
    I didn't know then, but you'd never be enough, oh
    Since I was seventeen, I gave you everything
    Now, we wake from a dream
    Well, baby, what was that?

    What was that?
    'Cause I want you just like that
    (When I'm in the blue light, I can make it alright)
    What was that?
    (When I'm in the blue light, I can make it alright)
    Baby, what was that? Writer/s: Ella Marija Lani Yelich O'Connor, James Harmon Stack
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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