"It Girl" lyrics
She said
I'll make it because I deserve to make it
Every living thing deserves to thrive
Maybe I would rather rot and wallow
But we all need to believe in a good time
I'm gonna die old
To show you kids what that looks like
I might upset you
But I'll never let you down
I'll live my precious life
I will leave no soul behind
Your eyes do not control me
I stand firm upon the ground
So I'll dance until you think I really like it
I'll dance until I think I like it too
In a funny way this is how you all save me
In a funny way this is how I save you
And you root for me even when you attack me
You attack me because you need me to prevail
Everyone needs someone to believe in
And you'd rather have me dead than watch me fail
But you don't even see the other options
You're so scared to hope that you don't even know
You don't really want me young and dead and perfect
You want a thinking feeling animal to show you how to grow
And you love it when you see an It Girl happy
She shows you how to love it for yourself someday
And you hate her when she seems so fucking perfect
But you wouldn't really want her to be any other way
And I know that it sounds funny just to say it
But the irony is none of this is me
I'm just the girl behind the It Girl costume
I also just needed to believe
I needed songs so badly that I wrote them
They found a home with kids I'll never know
At first I felt attached, and then I didn't
The songs stopped being mine to have and hold
They split me into animal and symbol
Separated my composite parts
The screen between the two is cyber-porous
My stage name has my soft animal heart
So I'll die old just to show you what it looks like
I might hurt you but I'll never let you down
I'll love my precious life
I will leave no soul behind
Your eyes will not control me
I will stand firm upon the ground
So I'll dance until you think I really like it
I'll dance until I think I like it too
In a funny way this is how you all saved me
In a funny way this is how I saved you
It Girls are a special kind of mother
It Girls are a special kind of child
So love this precious It Girl for the summer
Take her as your parasocial bride
No one on TV ever gets better
As soon as they do they go off-screen
It's so bittersweet that you keep watching
It's bittersweet that you want to believe
I'll make it because I deserve to make it
Every living thing deserves to thrive
Maybe I would rather rot and wallow
But we all need to believe in a good time
I'm gonna die old
To show you kids what that looks like
I might upset you
But I'll never let you down
I'll live my precious life
I will leave no soul behind
Your eyes do not control me
I stand firm upon the ground
So I'll dance until you think I really like it
I'll dance until I think I like it too
In a funny way this is how you all save me
In a funny way this is how I save you
And you root for me even when you attack me
You attack me because you need me to prevail
Everyone needs someone to believe in
And you'd rather have me dead than watch me fail
But you don't even see the other options
You're so scared to hope that you don't even know
You don't really want me young and dead and perfect
You want a thinking feeling animal to show you how to grow
And you love it when you see an It Girl happy
She shows you how to love it for yourself someday
And you hate her when she seems so fucking perfect
But you wouldn't really want her to be any other way
And I know that it sounds funny just to say it
But the irony is none of this is me
I'm just the girl behind the It Girl costume
I also just needed to believe
I needed songs so badly that I wrote them
They found a home with kids I'll never know
At first I felt attached, and then I didn't
The songs stopped being mine to have and hold
They split me into animal and symbol
Separated my composite parts
The screen between the two is cyber-porous
My stage name has my soft animal heart
So I'll die old just to show you what it looks like
I might hurt you but I'll never let you down
I'll love my precious life
I will leave no soul behind
Your eyes will not control me
I will stand firm upon the ground
So I'll dance until you think I really like it
I'll dance until I think I like it too
In a funny way this is how you all saved me
In a funny way this is how I saved you
It Girls are a special kind of mother
It Girls are a special kind of child
So love this precious It Girl for the summer
Take her as your parasocial bride
No one on TV ever gets better
As soon as they do they go off-screen
It's so bittersweet that you keep watching
It's bittersweet that you want to believe
