Lauren O'Connell Bystander song lyrics

I think it'd be grand

To be a thief all with my red hands

Making a grab at every single chance

And there are plenty around here

I'd say "Sweet providence

Show me a taste, a little consequence

Something to make me wanna repent

'Cause I'm so far out of bounds here"

I'm no bystander

Call it a paradox

A war that we wage all made of scissors and rocks

And paper, it came but only just to talk

But somehow won anyway

And as for treatises

Why would I lay out all my weaknesses?

And show just how bleak all of this bleakness is?

‘Cause I had nothing better to say?

If I write memoirs

I'll make up lies about how movie stars

Showed me all I know of what people are

We all want to be wanted around

How I saw Jesse James

With no desperation in his pale face

Took what he wanted and they gave chase

To every corner of town