[Intro]
   


[Verse 1]
             
Make sure nobo

              
dy sees you le

 
ave
              
Hood over your

              
 head, keep yo

        
ur eyes down
              
Tell your frie

              
nds you're out

     
 for a run
          
You’ll be flus

hed when you r

eturn
             
Take the road 

             
less traveled 

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by
              
Tell yourself 

              
you can always

  
 stop
              
What started i

            
n beautiful ro


oms
          
Ends with meet

ings in parkin

g lots


[Chorus]
           
And that's the

             
 thing about i

llicit affairs
         
And clandestin

              
e meetings and

 
 longing stare

s
           
It's born from

          
 just one sing

le glance
         
But it dies an

              
d it dies and 

   
it dies
  
A million litt

le times


[Verse 2]
             
Leave the perf

           
ume on the she

lf
              
That you picke

              
d out just for

 
 him
              
So you leave n

         
o trace behind
         
Like you don’t

 even exist
             
Take the words

              
 for what they

 
 are
              
A dwindling, m

         
ercurial high
              
A drug that on

   
ly worked
    
The first few 

hundred times


[Chorus]
           
And that's the

             
 thing about i

llicit affairs
         
And clandestin

              
e meetings and

  
  stolen stare

s
           
They show thei

          
r truth one si

ngle time
         
But they lie a

              
nd they lie an

       
d they lie
  
A million litt

le times


[Bridge]
              
And you wanna 

      
scream

Don't call me 

"kid," don't c

all me "baby"

Look at this g

odforsaken mes

s that you mad

e me
             
You showed me 

           
colors you kno

              
w I can't see 

     
with anyone el

se

Don't call me 

"kid," don't c

all me "baby"

Look at this i

diotic fool th

at you made me
             
You taught me 

           
a secret langu

              
age I can't sp

         
eak with anyon

e else

[Outro]
          
And you know d

    
amn well
              
For you, I wou

   
ld ruin myself

A million litt

le times