St. Veronica

"St. Veronica" Fourth track from Smile

''“This is my commentary as an intertextual feminist based off of relationships that I’ve seen and been in, where you have these girls being completely emotionally and mentally and spiritually beaten down, by the ideas of what they’re supposed to be. And you’ll see girls dye their hair, because they heard that their boyfriend prefers it that way. ‘I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust’. It’s all from a first-person perspective, and it was so difficult to write because I didn’t want to get it wrong. I didn’t want to overstep any boundaries of someone reading it who might have been in that situation.”'' - vocalist Elijah Witt -

You told me to smile so I smile on command You told me to scream so I did it again I jump when you say cause I thought you would lead But now you’ve crawled in my mind and you’re not planning to leave

If you come, if you go, if you stay I’ll remember your face either way

I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust

I lay on my side just to give him a reason Yeah I drink every night just to make it seem easy If I don’t give him his way he just cuts off my wings Am I a fucking disgrace? That’s what he wants me to think

I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust

I’ll skin the skin I’m living in No one ever told me it would be like this Yeah I wanna feel better, but I just don’t fit I’ll skin the skin I’m living in No one ever told me it would be like this Yeah I wanna feel better, but I just don’t fit

I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust I used to be an angel, now I’m angel dust

I got it, I got it I got it, I got it, I got it I got it, I got it I got it, I got it, I got it

No one, no one, no one