Just Be Yourself Is the Worst Advice I've Ever Been Given Lyrics

I built myself with matchsticks

Strike me down I’ll keep you warm

Till you turn your back on me

I’m flickering forget me not

I’m the dirt on your shoes

You are the blood on my knees

But maybe someday I’ll be someone

Who could muster the strength

To put a smile on their face

With yesterday's hands on their throat

Tearing at my flesh again

What’s it feel like to fit in

My heart is rotting on the shelf

I wanna be somebody else

I tried and I tried and I can't get myself clean

Some things never change

Folded my heart in two and

Stored it in my back pocket

Wrote a note to myself and

Told myself that I lost it

So I took everything that you gave me

Wrote it down missed the wall

Landed on my wrist

Woah woah

Wrote a note to myself

Said I lost it

I’m a piece of the puzzle

You’re already complete

But maybe someday I’ll fit somewhere

Without trimming myself

To fit into the mold

Just be yourself is the worst thing I’ve been told

Tearing at my flesh again

What’s it feel like to fit in

My heart is rotting on the shelf

I wanna be somebody else

I tried and I tried and I can't get myself clean

Some things never change

Folded my heart in two and

Stored it in my back pocket

Wrote a note to myself and

Told myself that I lost it

So I took everything that you gave me

Wrote it down missed the wall

Landed on my wrist

Woah woah

Wrote a note to myself

Said I lost it

Rip the pin that’s

Stuck in my chest

I swear to you I’ll

Give you my best

Rip the pin that’s

Stuck in my chest

I swear to you I’ll

Give you my best

I’ve got this locked and loaded

My way with words is encoded

With metaphors and big words

To cover up how bad this hurts

Folded my heart in two and

Stored it in my back pocket

Wrote a note to myself and

Told myself that I lost it

Know that I don’t need you (The days that you won’t remember)

Or the blood that I’ve shed (Are the nights that pull me under)

I’ll be fine on my own (Now I get to live this over)

I’ll fit in when I’m dead (I’m fucked and I won’t get better)