Just Because It Glitters

[Verse 1]
The city said goodnight and the water's getting cold
I’m sitting in my thoughts of the things I can't control
There's an ocean in my mind and I’m fighting riptides
And I wonder who would miss me, mmm

[Verse 2]
Everything I wanted never made me who I am
But I put all my happiness in someone else's hands
Like when I reach the moon, I'm still shooting for the stars
'Cause everything I want is just a little too far

[Pre-Chorus]
Thought that I needed it all, ooh (Thought that I needed it all)
Started retraining my soul
Took me some time, but I know, oh

[Chorus]
Just because it glitters
Doesn't make it gold
(Shiniest dreams gon' leave you bitter)
And it's all for show
(American green won't make you richer)
All you could ever need
Does it mean anything?
Just because it glitters
Doesn’t make it gold
It doesn’t make it

[Verse 3]
Measuring my losses up against another life
I always crave perfection, but I'm faulty by design
And I fight all the forces, like reality and time
Then I get mad at gravity for keeping me from flyin’

[Pre-Chorus]
Thought that I needed it all, ooh (Thought that I needed it all)
Started retraining my soul
Took me some time, but I know, oh

[Chorus]
Just because it glitters
Doesn't make it gold
(Shiniest dreams gon' leave you bitter)
And it's all for show
(American green won’t make you richer)
All you could ever need
Does it mean anything?
Just because it glitters
Doesn't make it gold
(It doesn't make it)

[Outro]
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it
I don't know when I'm gon' be happy but I'm happy to be here, to be part of it (I don't know when I'm gon' be happy)