Say It

If I tell you what I really want, you just say shut up

You don't really want to hear it, no

I try to be resolute, you reduce it down to cute

I tell you you're a coward, you say I'm a prostitute

When the mascara's dried

I know you've got something to hide

Can't you just say it, say it, say it, say it one time

Speak your mind, ooh

Say it, say it, say it, always show up with someone else

What's it like when you're yourself?

I'll tell you what I want, but I keep it kind of cryptic

I'm a zoetrope cipher on the tip of a triptych

Tell you what you want

Tell you what I need, but I'll hate you if you miss it

I'd like to take a stranger's face in my hands and kiss the taste of nowhere to hide

Yeah, the taste of nowhere to hide

I want you to say it, say it, say it, say it one time

Speak your mind, ooh

Say it, say it, say it, here comes the breakdown

What's it like when there's no one else?

Say it, say it, say it, what's going on here

I swear you'll disappear if you don't

Say it, say it, say it, take it down now to the car

We'll speak no more

You're just a cheap lout

You're just an escape route

But you know, you know, you know

It makes me try again

What's the matter with you?

Or the tunes you wanna do you won't let anyone get near

Is it the critics you fear?

Blast them all and cut off your ear and keep it all in your head

A requiem when you're dead that no one else can hear

Nothing you write will ever match this

You should go back to that actress

Or the days when you lived on a mattress, when everything was new

So live inside a curse, or make a gift to the universe and let it go

I miss seeing you at the show

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)

Say what you mean

(Say it, say it, say it)