[Verse 1] Found you in a shoebox Corners curled Your summer dress Dust across your freckles Fingerprints on my regrets I’m staring at this photograph ’Cause texting you felt fake You’re smiling at the ocean I’m drowning in the wake [Pre-Chorus] Then I see your hands You’re holding something too A faded little snapshot Someone broken Just like you [Chorus] It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again Every frame a hallway back to when Further I fall The less I feel Every new layer makes you less real I’m lost in the margins Stuck in the grain Chasing your ghost through a windowpane It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again And I’m not in any of them [Verse 2] Zoom into your photo You’re on some stranger’s floor Staring at another face You’ve never looked this bored He’s clutching his own Polaroid Eyes red from staying up He’s frozen with his history And I’m screaming “that was us” [Pre-Chorus] Frame inside a frame Each one further out Everyone’s a echo No one turns around [Chorus] It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again Every frame a hallway back to when Further I fall The less I feel Every new layer makes you less real I’m lost in the margins Stuck in the grain Chasing your ghost through a windowpane It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again And I’m not in any of them [Bridge] Peel the paper back There I am Last Tiny in the background Hands in the cast Of the boy that you left For a life you deserved I’m a blur in the corner Of my own universe [Bridge] Every layer colder Every border thicker Every version older Every heartbeat flickers If you went back Would you Even say my name? Or just crop me out To save the frame? [Chorus] It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again Every frame a hallway back to when Further I fall The less I feel Every new layer makes you less real I’m lost in the margins Stuck in the grain Chasing your ghost through a windowpane It’s pictures in pictures in pictures again And I’m not in any of them [Outro] I keep staring at your photograph ’Til it stares right back through me I was always just a background kid In a gallery of used-to-be
