[Verse 1]
i say, “It’s loud,” but what I mean is, “I’m scared”
everyone here’s a mess of unknown reactions
question marks in fashion
I don’t know what I’ll get, what to expect

emotional roulette, lips drawn like threats
i circle the room like a plot with no arc
dodging connection in case it might
leave a mark and god knows...

I already feel too much.

[Pre-Chorus]
i pout along in existential tension
disassociated strut like I need intervention
dodge intention,
feign emotion with practiced inflection

[chorus]
i'll be a stranger
and you be the danger
(a not so friendly reminder)
that you could never change her
(and what you thought was major)
was just the remainder
(full fears and faint failures)
quietly destructive behaviors

[verse 2]
smiling is a learned response,
and I’m an excellent student of pretense.
i wasn’t made for stability—
i break ugly and give in too easy.

the lights are low, but my doubts are loud,
i vanish politely inside the crowd.
dressed so pretty to feel so vague
charmed by the ache of my own malaise.

[prechrous]
i pout along in existential tension
disassociated strut like I need intervention
dodge intention,
feign emotion with practiced inflection

[chorus]
i'll be a stranger
and you be the danger
(a not so friendly reminder)
that you could never change her
(and what you thought was major)
was just the remainder
(full fears and faint failures)
quietly destructive behaviors

[outro]
a kiss is a gamble, a handshake’s a dare
your lovers are poison, your friends never care

a kiss is a gamble, a handshake’s a dare
your lovers are poison, your friends never care

[chanting + gang vocals]
everyone's stranger
everyone's danger
everyone's stranger
everyone's danger
[fading x2]