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Mess Me Up

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Mess Me Up

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Tell me you've been distracted

Just say you heard what’s happened

But tell me you can't be what I need

LA's so dramatic

But I’m learning to like the traffic

It's given me time to hum new melodies

Like, you're so ice cold to me

I can feel you in my bloodstream

Killing things

You're so ice cold to me

I can feel you in my heartbeat

My heartbeat

So if you gonna mess me up, don't do it slowly

And if you gonna lead me on then act like you know me

And if you gonna get me addicted, you have my permission

I think I know how these things go

If you gonna mess me up, don't do it slowly

And tell me you're busy, you're working

And tell me a fire is burning

And tell me you can’t be what I need

(You can’t be what I need)

The city's so dramatic

But I’m getting much better at acting

We've got no time to think of memories

Like, girl you're so ice cold to me

I can feel you in my bloodstream

Killing things

You're so ice cold to me

I can feel you in my heartbeat

My heartbeat

Between the empty sex and cigarettes

I think of you between the breaths

I wanna know what’s happening

I wanna know why the phone won't ring

So if you gonna mess me up, don't do it slowly

If you gonna lead me on then act like you know me

And if you gonna get me addicted, you have my permission

I think I know how these things go

If you gonna mess me up, don't do it slowly

Keep on messing me, messing me up, oh-oh

You keep on messing me, messing me up, oh-oh

Keep on messing me, messing me up

Between the empty sex and cigarettes

Keep on messing me, messing me up

I think of you between the breaths

If you gonna get me addicted, you have my permission

I think I know how these things go

If you gonna mess me up, don't do it slow

Yeah, if you gonna mess me up, don't do it slow

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