All my life, I've been fighting a war
I can't talk to you or your friends
It's not only you
My heart jumps around when I'm alluded to
This will not do'Cause I was raised up
To be admired, to be noticed
But when you're withdrawn
It's the closest thing
To a soap when our lives are on you
This will not doI'm thinking glory
Lick my lips, toss my hair
And send a smile over
And the story's brand new
That I can take it from here
I'll find my own bravadoIt's a switch flipped
It's a pill tipped back
It's a moon eclipsed, ohh
And I can tell you that when the lights come on I'll be ready for this
It's in your blood stream
A collision of atoms that happens before your eyes
It's a marathon run
Or a mountain you scale without thinking of sizeI was fighting off every little thing that I thought was out to get me down
To trip me up and laugh at me but
I've learned not to want the quiet of the room with no-one around to find me out
I want the applause, the approval, the things that make me go
Oh whoaIt's a switch flipped
It's a pill tipped back
It's a moon eclipsed, ohh
And I can tell you that when the lights come on I'll be ready for this
It's in your blood stream
A collision of atoms that happens before your eyes
Its a marathon run
Or a mountain your scale without thinking of sizeI was fighting off every little thing that I thought was out to get me down
To trip me up and laugh at me but
I've learned not to want the quiet of the room with no-one around to find me out
I want the applause, the approval, the things that make me go
Oh whoa