Fingers Crossed Lyrics
In the end, when they're all gone
When the world is silent and the days are long
Just you and I, we'll be alive
We made it on our own
[Chorus]
'Cause everybody makes it 'till they don't
And everybody wants to think they won't
'Cause everybody makes it 'till they don't
And everybody seems to think they won't, they won't, they won't, they won't
[Verse 2]
Maybe I'm still alive but my heart is beating slow
Baby, tell me I gotta know
Are you okay? You seem too far gone
Infected, standing there all alone
[Chorus]
'Cause everybody makes it 'till they don't
And everybody wants to think they won't
And everybody makes it 'till they don't
And everybody seems to think they won't, they won't, they won't, they won't
[Post-Chorus]
The best of me, the best of me is you
The best of me, the best of me was you
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa
Ladum, badum, mmmm
About
“Fingers Crossed” was Billie’s second song released to her SoundCloud account, right before the upload of her breakthrough single, “ocean eyes” in 2015. “Fingers Crossed” was written by Billie and produced by her big brother, FINNEAS.
The lyrics are inspired by AMC’s television series The Walking Dead, featuring themes of the zombie apocalypse. The song was originally for her film class.
A year after the song was released, Billie commented on the song, saying,
this is so bad lol
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
‘’..[].but then the first song I really wrote was one called “Fingers Crossed,” which is on SoundCloud. I wrote it about the zombie apocalypse, actually. I was in this songwriting class that my mom taught—she was a huge part of my and my brother’s songwriting habits, the way we learned—and the assignment was to watch a movie or a show and write down certain lines that you thought were good hooks, good titles, or good names. And I watched The Walking Dead, because that was my favorite show at the time, and I got tons of stuff. I wrote this song about the apocalypse in my mind, and it came out as a love song—a longing despair, which wasn’t my intention, but it happened. People really like it and it was weird, because I didn’t care for it that much, and I just put it out because I wanted to. I don’t know if it was that one or another song that I wrote about dying. [laughs] Dark. Very dark. ‘’
via Interviewmagazine
