Perfume

Album: Pebble Brain (2021)
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  • It's 3:45 (AM)
    And I just bite my tongue
    Update me on your life
    And now you've found the one
    But I don't like his eyes
    And I distrust their name
    And I hate their haircut
    They look like a prick (a prick)

    But it's all the same
    Would it be daft of me to cry?
    Your tongue is razor sharp
    I miss when it would fight mine
    Left your heart on standby
    By the way he holds you
    Bet he serenades you
    I can't really blame you

    And I can still smell her perfume
    Did it rub off on you?
    And I can still smell her perfume
    Did it rub off on you?

    You say your ex-boyfriend's a policeman
    Well, I say you need better standards
    You say your ex-boyfriend's a policeman
    I say you need better standards

    It seems like all our friends
    Abruptly fell in love
    And she was in the dust
    Darling, life was streaming past
    So she learnt to lie
    She learnt how to pretend
    A drama in the futile
    A means to an end

    Why can't you be a dick?
    Why must you be so nice?
    It's hard for me to move on
    When I don't really hate you
    (I don't really hate you)
    (I don't really hate you)
    (I don't really hate you)

    And I can still smell her perfume
    Did it rub off on you?
    And I can still smell her perfume
    Did it rub off on you?

    It's 3:45
    Your taxi's not arrived
    And I don't think that he's coming Writer/s: Ashley Stevens, Joseph Goldsmith, Mark Boardman, William Gold
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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