Halsey
Only Living Girl in LA lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2024
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 6:15
I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County
I'm the only one who sees (ayy)
I wake up every day in some new kind of suffering
I've never known a day of peace
I wonder if I ever left behind my body (ooh)
You think they'd laugh at how I died?
Or take a photo of my family in the lobby
The ceremony's small in size
'Cause I don't know if I could sell out my own funeral (ah-ah)
At least not at this point in time
And if I ever try to leave behind my body
At least I know it was never mine, it was never mine
It was never mine
It was never mine
Well, I'm the only girl alive in New York City
I left my wallet on the train
Since I no longer even have a driver's license
I guess that means I have no name (this is Halsey Street)
And I could run away to somewhere on the West Coast
And finally be a real life girl
They'll take my organs, and they'll hang me from the bedpost
Sayin' I was too soft for this world
And they'd be right, because quite frankly, to be alive
It shouldn't kill me every day, the way it does
I don't know what I did to have this fate, I'm drenched in it
And I can't even run from what I know
My special talent isn't writing, it's not singing
It's feeling everything that everyone alive feels every day
Feels every day
Feels every day
Feels every day
I think I'm special 'cause I cut myself wide open
As if it's honorable to bleed
But I'm not lucky, and I know I wasn't chosen
The world keeps spinning without me
I told my mother I would die by twenty-seven
And in a way, I sort of did
This thing I love has grown demanding and obsessive
And it wants more than I can give, than I can give
Than I can give
Than I can give
Well, I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County
I've never known a day of peace
I wake up every day and wish that I was different
I look around and it's just me
(It's just me)
(It's just me)
(Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah)
(Ooh, ayy)
(Wee-ooh, wee-ooh, yeah-yeah)
(Ah-ah-ah)
I'm the only one, the only one, it's me
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Key vocabulary
- don't
- do notA1
- alive
- living, not deadA2
- driver's
- belonging to a driverA2
- license
- official permission to do somethingA2
- myself
- me, aloneA2
- peace
- calm; no fightingA2
- singing
- making music with voiceA2
- soft
- not hardA2
- somewhere
- in a place (not specified)A2
- girl
- female childA1
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About this song
Halsey is an American pop singer-songwriter born Ashley Nicolette Frangipane. Their work blends alternative and mainstream pop with sharp, often satirical storytelling across albums like BADLANDS and Manic.