More songs by Henry Moodie
Description
Sometimes love is like an endless attempt to earn a good behavior grade. You smile when you're in pain, you adapt when you're tired, and you save other people's worlds with such enthusiasm that your own quietly turns to ashes. It's all for the sake of harmony - or at least the appearance of it. And then you're left in someone's apartment, on a floor of excuses, and you realize you're a hero without a medal again, but with a diploma for "Best Yes-Man of the Year." And you know it's time to leave... but as luck would have it, your heart has aced the course in selflessness.
Lyrics and translation
Original
I'd lay down on the train tracks, just so you could cross them.
And I'd sink deep in the ocean, just to meet you at the bottom.
Show you what you wanna see.
Tell myself it's empathy.
Throw aside the things I need for you.
'Cause even when it hurts, I'll put you first. That's how I work.
Do anything to make sure your world turns while my world burns.
I never learn.
'Cause it don't matter if you love me, if you let me down. Though it's killing me,
I'll always wanna work it out. Even when it hurts, I'll put you first.
Anything to keep ya.
I'm a people pleaser.
I wish I could go one day not seeking validation.
I'd wake up feeling unfazed if I'm getting any attention.
I care about how I'm perceived.
Show myself some empathy.
Prioritize the things I need from you.
Oh, even when it hurts, I'll put you first. That's how I work.
Do anything to make sure your world turns while my world burns.
I never learn.
'Cause it don't matter if you love me, if you let me down. Though it's killing me,
I'll always wanna work it out.
Even when it hurts, I'll put you first. Anything to keep ya.
I'm a people pleaser.
I'm a people pleaser. Validation seeker.
I'm a people pleaser.
I'm a people pleaser.
Yeah, I know that I should run.
I know I gotta call it.
But after all is said and done,
I'm still here in your apartment.