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