Fake Nostalgia from FAKE NOSTALGIA by Mark Bulos

Oooh I can't remember what I've done
'Cause when I look into the mirror I'm a shell of what I was
In confusion, disillusion,
My reflection's trying to tell me something
(I gotta get this right
But I keep wasting time)

I often wonder what went wrong
To want to be somebody else, cause I just can't live as my own
This empty mood I wear all year just never goes away
(I gotta get this right)

Don't want to stay in this state of mind all day
Staring at this screen with your faces
Baby it's so problematic
Why is everything so static?
And I just want to live your life just to feel it again

Cause I get that fake nostalgia
And memories that were never mine (never mine)
Cause I can't write my own life
(I can't write my life,
Baby I'm not me tonight)
And I just want to feel alive
(I just want to feel alive)

Oooh it's getting hard to recognize
Just how much I shouldn't act this way, but it's hard for me each time
And when I see you I just slowly slip away
(I feel alone in my own shoes)

But if I swapped with you for just one night
I'd get by and forget everything that tells me I'm never enough
Every day and night,
Cause it might just reignite my light and lead me to love
And it's no surprise, when online I feel so inclined to want to live by your style
And I can't hide how I'm so in denial
And I just want to wake in your shoes and your life for one night just to feel that-

Fake nostalgia
And memories that were never mine (never mine)
Cause I can't write my own life
(I can't write my life,
Baby I'm not me tonight)
And I just want to feel alive
(I just want to feel alive)
Even if it's fake nostalgia
I can't be myself tonight (myself tonight)
I'll need to apologize
(I'll need to apologize,
Cause baby I'm not me tonight)
Cause I know this isn't my own life

• Pop
• city pop
• jazz-funk
• retro-pop
• synthpop
• Auckland