Tani Effect..

[Verse 1] Go talk to Tonny Why? She'll get it out of you Get what out of me? You'll see Oh, for fuck's sake [Verse 2] I came for a party, I came for a drink I came for a little bit of cake, I think You said, "Nice to meet you" I said, "Likewise, hi" Three minutes later, you're explaining why Your mother never called, your father never stayed The dream you had at seven got quietly mislaid And somehow I'm holding the pieces of your past I haven't even found the cake yet, how the hell did we get here so fast? I didn't pry, I didn't ask I just looked up and there went the mask [Chorus] Diamond emotional skeleton key Apparently, that's my job I don't pick locks, I just sit and listen And suddenly the whole thing drops Your secrets, your sins, your I've never told this before Your childhood dreams and the crime you committed at 24 I swear I'm not judging, I'm just trying to find my plate Everybody needs a breakthrough, I just came here for the cake My friends are starting using me like some kind of human lie detector [Verse 3] Go talk to Tonny, why? She'll get it out of you Get what out of me? You'll see Apparently, I'm the emotional locksmith, the unofficial priest The place you send a person when they're bursting at the seams No license, no training, no hourly rate, no please Bring your trauma in a clearly labeled case But hand me a stranger with a carefully practiced smile And somehow, ten minutes later, I'm convincing them life is worthwhile I didn't crack you, I didn't pry You just got tired of keeping yourself disguised [Chorus] And an emotional skeleton key Apparently, that's my brand You show up with a personality and leave with your heart in your hands Your secrets, your sins, your please don't tell a soul Your I don't know why I'm saying this well, apparently, I know I swear I'm not judging, I'm just trying to locate my plate You found your inner child, I only found crumbs of the cake [Bridge] The Tonny effect, I didn't name it The Tonny effect, apparently you did The Tonny effect Oh, don't look at me like that I just asked if you wanted tea And maybe I finally figured out what everybody else could see You don't need a perfect answer, you just need somewhere you can be You can be soft without apologizing, you can forget and I'll remember You can lose the words halfway through and I won't make you find them better I'll hold the things you can't quite carry, I'll tell you when you're losing your way I'll see the person underneath the personality you made to get through the day God, I know that feeling Being there and not being seen So maybe that's the trick, I know how much it hurts to disappear inside yourself Maybe people aren't confessing because I pull the secrets out Maybe they just get tired of performing what they're not Maybe everyone is walking around with a costume labeled me And every now and then somebody needs a place to take it off completely And if I can be that place Well, I think I'm finally learning that's something worth being proud of [Outro] Which is inconvenient, because I'm an emotional skeleton key Yeah, apparently, it's real I make you feel uncomfortably seen and somehow that's a good thing to feel Your secrets, your sins, your I thought nobody'd understand Your dreams, your fears, your whole damn heart in my hands And the people who love me apparently want me to stay They're guarding me jealously like I might just walk away I tell them you cool it, I'm not going anywhere They say shut up, we finally found someone who cares So maybe I get it now, maybe this is what I became A place where people stop pretending and they don't need to be seen The Tonny effect, yeah, fine, it's a thing, the Tonny effect I suppose I do that, the Tonny effect You can tell me your darkest secret, just Can somebody please tell me where the fucking cake went? Go talk to Tonny, why? You'll see