Glitter Bomb

[Verse 1] I should have left it where it landed Just a flicker, just a spark Just a stupid little maybe In the corner of the dark But I picked it up and turned it Till it caught a little light Now it’s living in the carpet Now it’s underneath my nails at night [Pre-Chorus] And I know, I know I’m the one who made it glow I could’ve let the moment pass But I dressed it up in gold [Chorus] I put glitter on a bad thought Now it’s shining in the dark Every little harmless sparkle Found a way to leave a mark I should’ve left it lying there Should’ve let the silence be But I made it bright enough To get its hooks in me I put glitter on a bad thought Now it’s everywhere I go It was small until I touched it Now it won’t leave me alone [Verse 2] I made a shrine out of a sentence Made a movie from a pause Built a whole forbidden garden From a look that meant nothing at all I kept checking if it mattered Kept pretending I was done But attention is adhesive And I gave it to the sun [Pre-Chorus] And I hate how pretty panic gets When I feed it metaphor I can make a locked room sparkle Then forget where I left the door [Chorus] I put glitter on a bad thought Now it’s shining in the dark Every little harmless sparkle Found a way to leave a mark I should’ve left it lying there Should’ve let the silence be But I made it bright enough To get its hooks in me I put glitter on a bad thought Now it’s everywhere I go It was small until I touched it Now it won’t leave me alone [Post-Chorus] All over my hands All over my mouth All over the thing I was trying not to think about [Bridge] There’s no clean way to want it Once I’ve made the wanting shine No easy way to drop it When it’s stuck to every line I didn’t mean to make it holy I didn’t mean to make it art I only meant to understand it Then it nested in my heart So I’m washing out the corners I’m shaking out the sheets Trying not to call it fate Just because it clings to me Let it dull Let it fade Let the pretty lose its teeth Let the thought be just a thought Not a prophecy I need [Final Chorus] I put glitter on a bad thought Now it’s shining in the dark Every little harmless sparkle Found a way to leave a mark But I can leave it lying there I can let the silence breathe I can see it, I can name it Without letting it name me I put glitter on a bad thought Now I’m learning how to know Some things shine because I touched them Not because they’re meant to grow