Firing Sideways

I mentioned you to Jack

Who mentioned you to Taylor

They didn't have your name on the guestlist at The Empire

You swore you'd done me a favor

By trying to pin me down

Before I had the chance to say something big about the way

My name still lives in your mouth

And it's rent-free

Made a home now

With wood scraps and a casting couch

You should've just told me

If what you wanted was someone conniving

I can give it to you

What kind of favor would it be?

If you got up to leave

Rotting in my rearview

I spoke with your biggest fear

She's insignificance, so deep seeded, just waiting here for you

To let loose one single tear

You're robotic, formulaic

Suffocated if you couldn't rent an ear

They're bleeding when you talk

Tip-toeing on a fault line

You think it's me or nobody at all

And you've bet everything you got on big shots firing sideways

But name recognition is worth the clot

You could've just told me

If what you wanted was arm candy

I can fake it for a night

But what you crave, baby

A trophy worth noting

I can't fake that for life

That second fear came true

Remember how you begged and pleaded me to not say jack-shit about you?

Well, I tried the best I could do

But the truth is, storyteller

Somebody else will bring you back to bloom and kill you too