Telling the wide web that this is my era
Then writing a lot of heartbroken music
Nobody actually happy and healthy
Has ever felt so desperate to prove it
You took a road trip into the mountains
I feel like all of my exes have done that
It looked like a film Michael Cera would act in
And it felt like a face slap
[Pre-Chorus]
It keeps hurting
But I keep searching, mm
[Chorus]
You're still there (Still there), you look better (What the fuck?)
I fought it, but I saw it and it sawed me right in half
You still get to me, but I still let you (Yes, I do)
You're bein' a superstar and all I got are victim cards
And you got every single thing you want
And I just watch
[Post-Chorus]
I just watch
I just watch
Millennium baby, but you are pretentious
So you have a camcorder out of the '90s
And everybody pretends that they're great
But what if you actually might be?
[Pre-Chorus]
I forget to (I forget to)
So I gotta get my act together
[Chorus]
You're still there (Still there), you look better (What the fuck?)
I fought it, but I saw it and it sawed me right in half
You still get to me, but I still let you (Yes, I do)
You're bein' a superstar and all I got are victim cards
And you got every single thing you want
And I just watch
[Bridge]
I know that I should know better
I don't think I wanna get better
So obsessed, now I don't have you
I just keep lookin' back at you
I know that I should know better
I don't think I wanna get better
So obsessed, I'm so obsessed
I'm still here in my loafers (With a smoothie)
And I saw you and your girlfriend
Sure, I don't know she's your girlfriend
Well, fucking sue me 'cause at least then we could talk, mm
[Chorus]
You're still there (Still there), you look better (What the fuck?)
I fought it, but I saw it and it sawed me right in half
You still get to me, but I still let you (Yes, I do)
Now you're living the goddamn dream
Have a golden star, this one's for free
'Cause you broke my heart and my self-esteem
For a girl who's a remix of me
But I guess you got everything you want
And I just watch
About
Initially released in a snippet via her tiktok.
Maisie Peters in her pre-album announcement cards mentioned
i wrote this song about watching someone forget about my existence at lightning speed – it hurt my ego and my heart (a little bit) so i vented for three minutes and it became watch lol. ‘telling the wide web this is my era then writing a lot of heartbroken music’ is the opening line and i truly did tweet ‘in my reputation era’ and then proceed to write half a dozen songs about how sad and stupid i felt, which is deeply funny in hindsight. i was desperate and mainly bored and obsessively checking his instagram and drinking a lot of joe and the juice smoothies and listening to a lot of gwen stefani and alanis morrisette, but i got this song about it so all in all i’d consider it a win 🙂
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track 3!!!! the oldest song on this album!!!! i wrote this on my first trip to stockholm, the day after i wrote cate’s brother, the first time i met [Oscar Görres], and it’s one of the most fun songs on this album for sure 🥰
i wrote this song about watching someone forget about my existence at lightning speed – it hurt my ego and my heart (a little bit) so i vented for three minutes and it became watch lol.
–via Instagram
- 3.Watch
- 4.Body Better
- 9.Wendy
- 10.Run
- 11.Two Weeks Ago
- 12.BSC
- 13.Therapy
- 14.There It Goes
- 15.History Of Man
