Pandemonium - NIKI

Smoke puffs are white and piling

This head feels like an island

I am my own asylum

Their stares are beady but I don’t mind

Let 'em take their time

'Cause there ain’t no new light to shed, no, no

Pandemonium calms me down like an ocean, oh (an ocean, oh)

And I’m kissing pillow lips, drunk off saccharine potions, oh

And nothing really matters

'Cause everybody here is dying

Dying out in slow motion

And everybody here is lying, lying

Silently detonating emotions

Read the spaces between the lines

Mind your own business while I grow mine

No it’s never personal

Maybe that’s the problem

We loosen up every rung on the ladder

Serve up a smile on a silver platter

No one needs a pillar, just a painkiller or two

'Cause everybody here is dying

Dying out in slow motion

And everybody here is lying, lying

Silently detonating emotions

We’re dying in the dark

It’s written there in the stars

You’re understood by so little and loved only from afar

And counting blessings is hard

I don’t quite know where to start

The gold is new, but the gray

Well that’s just state of the art

And bottoms up to skeletons all bottled up

Always going when the going gets too tough, oh

'Cause everybody here is dying

Dying out in slow motion

And everybody here is lying, lying

Silently detonating emotions

'Cause everybody here is dying

Dying out in slow motion

And everybody here is lying, lying

Silently detonating emotions

'Cause everybody here is dying