"Gasping For Air" lyrics

Goner, hold me underwater
Just to watch me come up, gasping for air
I love the way you hate me, how close to death you take me
Just to watch me come back, gasping for air

My last line, the screen's black, the credits roll
Will you ever see me again? I guess we'll never know
A quick kiss, you get a cab, you're headed home
It's pitch black, the door's locked, I'm all alone
Watching a roller coaster love from a Ferris wheel
I'm only words on a page, but I could swear it's real
Another matinee, wanting me to act this way
I'll foil wrap my heart a couple times a day, anyway

I just wanna make it so the strings don't show
Dreams getting tangled in a velvet rope
Laugh at my demise to forget your own
'Cause I can fake a smile and the world won't know
I just wanna make it where the sun might shine
Summer in the daytime, breeze in the night
Doing what you told me for the very last time
'Til then I'm just a

Goner, hold me underwater
Just to watch me come up, gasping for air
I love the way you hate me, how close to death you take me
Just to watch me come back, gasping for air
Gasping for air
I just wanted to come back down, to the earth
Let me be free

I'm tired of playing a role that was written for me
A scripted story, when I get forgotten, you get the glory
It's fucked up, will anything ever be different for me?
I'm missing my old life but apparently it was boring
But now I suffocate in a semi-romantic love
Escape doesn't seem like it's coming, I feel nothing, my numb estate
The light's dimming, I rush and put on my other face
All in all, guess it's just another day, anyway

I just wanna make it so the strings don't show
Dreams getting tangled in a velvet rope
Laugh at my demise to forget your own
'Cause I can fake a smile and the world won't know
I just wanna make it where the sun might shine
Summer in the daytime, breeze in the night
Doing what you told me for the very last time
'Til then I'm just a

Goner, hold me underwater
Just to watch me come up, gasping for air
I love the way you hate me, how close to death you take me
Just to watch me come back, gasping for air
Gasping for air
I just wanted to come back down, to the earth
Let me be free
It feels good when you learn from my mistakes
But not if you're me

'Til then I'm just a goner
(I wish I could just live my life, but I'm)
Hold me underwater, just to watch me
Come up, gasping for air (Stuck in a screen)
I know there's happier endings somewhere
I wish that they would happen to me