you walked in like a headline act but the room didn’t quite react just a cloud of something sweet and sharp like it’s trying hard to play the part you’re laughing like you’ve heard it all every line hits the same old wall got a drink you don’t even like just to give your hands a place to hide cheap perfume hanging in the crowded room trying to be something new but it fades too soon cheap perfume on a borrowed attitude i can smell the truth on you even through the fumes you say you’re “not like all the rest” but you’re reading from the same request got your stories lined up neat like receipts you don’t wanna keep there’s a mirror in the bathroom light you check twice like it might rewrite every version that you’ve been tonight into something they might like you say it like it’s just for me but you’ve said this all before cheap perfume hanging in the crowded room trying to be something new but it fades too soon cheap perfume on a borrowed attitude i can smell the truth on you even through the fumes cheap perfume now it’s stuck on my clothes too guess i’ll take a bit of you when i leave the room cheap perfume maybe i’m just passing through but i stayed longer than i should like i always do like i always do oh, like i always do i stayed longer than i should just like i always do
