Rue

[Intro, spoken]
Hopeless and all alone
I built a garden--
Are you fucking kidding me?

[Verse 1]
Hopeless and all alone
I built a garden at home the size of a courtyard
The flowers were just as tall
As all the boys I envied who paraded with their sports cars

[Pre-Chorus]
I’ll never be one of those, I told myself not long ago
I was a grower not a show-off, shit-talking myself, like I’m

[Chorus]
Never gonna see the fucking end of it
There’s nothing I can celebrate
Forget it, for the hell of it
I know I’ll be
Forgotten by my friends when I die young or kill myself
Almost

Reaching all my goals and by the end of it
There’s no one with me celebrating
Anyone can replicate it
Now, I’ll be
Fallen off the tracks
I’ll never be special
Not one of those

[Post-Chorus]
Hopeless and all alone
Hopeless and all alone

[Verse 2]
Making friends with the rope
I hung over my bed in my blue-world childhood bedroom
Devour Glass and Patron
My pen’s no far from disease, I can pass both down like heirlooms

[Pre-Chorus]
I’ll never be one of those, I told myself, but things have changed
You grow up and you face your fate
I’ve grown to hate both, tbh

[Chorus]
Never gonna see the fucking end of it
There’s nothing I can celebrate
Forget it, for the hell of it
I know I’ll be
Forgotten by my friends when I die young or kill myself
Almost

Reaching all my goals and by the end of it
There’s no one with me celebrating
Anyone can replicate it
Now, I’ll be
Fallen off the tracks
I’ll never be special
Not one of those

[Bridge]
Boys who are unique in dying
Not one of those
Boys who succeed in trying
Not one of those
Boys who fill their lives with alcohol and video games
And have their nineteen years of life feel like flying

[Outro]
Boys, I’m not unique in dying, I’m not unique in trying
I’m not unique in anything
I’m not unique in sharpening my pen, not smart, not handsome, then
Not part of anything
I swear to God when it ends I’m fucking tearing down this garden