allie

allie

what would you do?

when there's bombs in the middle east

you want to hurt yourself

when there's knives in the city streets

you want to end yourself

when there's fun in your mother's house

you want to cry yourself to sleep

allie

what would you do?

with your fears

because they're adding one by one

and your mountains are obscured behind the sun

and the person that you could be is crumbling into dust

you're in the mess 'cause you thought

you'd be someone else

'cause the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie

allie

hand on your head

and a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library

and if you looked from here

you would surely see

there's a softness in your heart

there's a poetry to come

you bought that gun 'cause you thought

you'd be someone else

'cause the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie

you made a list of all your heroes

and you thought about what they went through

yeah

you thought about what they went through

it's much darker

much harder

than anything that happened to you

allie

what would you do?

when your seven-year plan happens to someone else

and the people in your life you would happily shelf

when day falls night

you are truly on your own?

you're in this place 'cause you thought

you'd be someone else

but the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie

yeah

the tricks in your head are a lie