Gasping For Air

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 doors locked, I'm all alone
Watching a rollercoaster love from a ferris wheel
I'm only words on a page but I can swear it's real
Another matinee wanting me to act this way
Offer up my heart a couple times a day anyway

I just wanna make it so the strings don't show
Dream 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 want to make it where the sun might shine
Summer in the daytime, breeze in the night
Doing what you tell 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 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 numbest state
The lights dim and I rush to 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 want to make it where the sun might shine
Summer in the daytime, breeze in the night
Doing what you tell 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 Earth
Let me be free
It feels good when you learn from my mistakes
But not if you're me
I wish I could just live my life but
I'm stuck in a screen
I know there's happier endings somewhere
I wish that they would happen to me