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LISBON
- [Verse One]
- I see my friends abroad and they claim not to brag
- But I'm lookin' at them insta stories and seein' them in Prague
- Same faces from school and now they're flyin' away
- While I'm here scrolling through the life they display
- They say "it's not that deep" but it kinda is
- When you zoom out your world and compare it to his
- Beach pics, rooftop drinks, different skies in the lens
- While I'm stuck in the group chat saying "have fun then"
- And I'm happy for them, I swear I try to be
- But it don't stop that feeling that it's not me
- Like I'm watchin' life happen from outside a screen
- With a smile on my face I don't fully mean
- We never had much but I never complained
- Just different summers and ones without planes
- Mine was caravan parks up in Dawlish Sands
- Fish and chips all wrapped up in my hands
- Nan used to call me in when it got cold at night
- Tell me stories like everything would be alright
- Tim on the karaoke and laughing at the radio static
- Like life didn't need to be so fucking dramatic
- I didn't know then what I sure know now
- That simple can still mean something somehow
- But I scroll through Insta and I feel that gap
- Like I'm stuck on the app and I can't go back
- [Chorus]
- I'm grateful for what I got, but I wanna see Lisbon
- I still feel somethin' when I see where they land
- Different worlds on a phone, I feel pissed at them
- And I don't know why the world ain't in my hands
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- [Verse 2]
- Dawlish Sands, in the past, I was five and loud
- Little Michael Jackson in the clubhouse tryna make 'em proud
- Bad pose, hat low, copying Thriller steps
- While the grown ups laughed like they didn't expect that yet
- Floorboards shaky but I thought it was a stage
- Like I already knew I was meant for a front page
- Nan clappin' in the corner with my dad saying "that's my boy"
- Tim on the karaoke again turnin' noise into joy
- We didn't call it poor, we labelled it a break
- Didn't know what we didn't have till I started to take
- Notes of the difference in what people would post
- And the places they go when they're doin' the most
- Now it's flights to Lisbon I wanna repeat
- But it's my freinds on the beach postin' champagne and heat
- And I'm sat in my bedroom with my cool LED lights
- Tryna act like I don't think about this imbalance at night
- But I do, and I hate that I even compare
- Cos' I know I got love, I know my people care
- Still sometimes it feels like I missed the train
- Watchin' it leave while I stand in the rain
- And I think about Nan and the way she'd smile
- Like the smallest things could make it worthwhile
- And Tim's karaoke in the background, no stress in his tone
- Like maybe I wasn't ever, ever alone.
- [Chorus]
- I'm grateful for what I got, but I wanna see Lisbon
- I still feel somethin' when I see where they land
- Different worlds on a phone, I feel pissed at them
- And I don't know why the world ain't in my hands
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- [Verse Three]
- Now I'm older, same phone, same scrolls at night
- Different problems but they don't feel right
- Type 1 on my arm like a second clock
- Always thinkin' bout sugar levels, numbers, time I lost
- I live alright, we're not doin' bad
- Got food on the table, I ain't starvin' sad
- But I see "luxury" and it still hits me strange
- Like I'm watchin' a world I can't fully exchange
- Little sister laughin' with brand new things
- Spoiled a bit but she don't know what it means
- And I laugh at her for it, she don't understand
- What I'd do for a plane to Lisbon and hear it loud.
- My dream location is Tokyo and I wanna go
- I wanna see Lisbon and post it on the low
- Vegas would be cool, Presley is my idol
- Australia is cool too, not bad like Michael
- [Outro]
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- You'd have no clue
- I have to say it true
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- I just wanna see it too
- Man you'd have no clue
- I just wanna see it too
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