Lyric

Bathroom mirror, blue-white light

My face looks almost famous

Wet bangs sticking to my cheek

Like proof I did not make this

Ghost roots under black dye

Showing where I tried to hide

I came here looking edited

Now the truth is ultraviolet

Phone in my hand, flash on low

Lip gloss cut across the glass

I take three photos, hate them all

Then keep the one where I look past

I covered it clean

I covered it well

But something pale

Still found a way to tell

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

I can’t make the dark stay dark

White at the crown like a warning

Lighting up the softest part

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

Everybody thinks I’m fine

But the thing I tried to bury

Is the first thing catching light

Girls by the sink trade perfume

Someone’s crying through a grin

I say I’m good, I say it fast

Like that makes it fit my skin

Close friends story, almost posted

Delete before it gets too true

I don’t want a room to know me

I just want it to be you

Silver hoops, black tank, low waist

New face for an old ache

I keep calling it a look

When it’s more like a mistake

I covered my tracks

I covered my name

But every root

Remembers what came

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

I can’t make the dark stay dark

White at the crown like a warning

Lighting up the softest part

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

Everybody thinks I’m fine

But the thing I tried to bury

Is the first thing catching light

Maybe I wanted someone

To see through the color

Maybe I made myself sharp

So I could still be discovered

Maybe the mirror is honest

Maybe the flash is cruel

Maybe I came out tonight

Just to be read by you

Don’t call it drama

Don’t call it youth

I put a filter on the wound

And it still came through

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

I can’t make the dark stay dark

White at the crown like a warning

Lighting up the softest part

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

Everybody thinks I’m fine

But the thing I tried to bury

Is the first thing catching light

Ghost Roots in the Club Bathroom

I look better than I feel

And the part I tried to cover

Is the only part that’s real