Don't Want a Body Lyrics

I read on the internet

You kiss someone

The next 6 months

Their DNA stays in your system

It's a matter of time 'til it's missing

And I heard every 7 years

That new cells grow

Replace the old

I wish I could stop it completely

Then maybe your touch wouldn't leave me

If only moving on were that scientific

I'd step into new skin, forget you existed

But I wanna hold onto

The parts of me that have you on 'em

I'm physiologically doomed

Can't stop the clock so I just watch it

Maybe if I don't look down

Won't see my nails growing out

If I don't look in the mirror

Won't see my roots going brown

Don't wanna turn into someone new

Don't want a body that doesn't know you

I'm told heartache's in the brain

The push and pull

Of chemicals

Will slowly fall back into balance

But I'm fighting it off

Cause feeling okay is not worth the cost

Of slowly erasing the trace of your fingertips

So here I am stubbornly digging my feet in

'Cause I wanna hold onto

The parts of me that have you on 'em

I'm physiologically doomed

Can't stop the clock so I just watch it

Maybe if I don't look down

Won't see my nails growing out

If I don't look in the mirror

Won't see my roots going brown

Don't wanna turn into someone new

Don't want a body that doesn't know you

I don't want a body that doesn't know you

It starts with my nails

And it starts with my roots

It starts with the little things adding up 'til I'm someone new

Then I'll be painfully aware

Of every gray hair

I'll feel the echo of the years

Through the ring in my ears

And I'll look in the mirror and see someone I don't know

All because I could never let you go

I wanna hold onto

The parts of me that have you on 'em

I'm physiologically doomed

Can't stop the clock so I just watch it