[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 


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

  
 stolen stares
      
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 stares
      
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


[Verse 3]
              
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
          
And you know d

   
amn well
              
For you, I wou

   
ld ruin myself

A million litt

le times