[Verse 1]

Quick, quick, tell me something awful

Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy

Tell me all your secrets, all you'll ever be is

My eternal consolation prize

You see, I was a debutante in another life, but

Now I seem to be scared to go outside

If comfort is a construct, I don't believe in good luck

Now that I know what's what

[Chorus]

I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind

People need a key to get to, the only one is mine

I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears

I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here

I hate it here

[Verse 2]

My friends used to play a game where

We would pick a decade

We wished we could live in instead of this

I'd say the 1830s but without all the racists

And getting married off for the highest bid

Everyone would look down 'cause it wasn't fun now

Seems like it was never even fun back then

Nostalgia is a mind's trick

If I'd been there, I'd hate it

It was freezing in the palace

[Chorus]

I hate it here so I will go to lunar valleys in my mind

When they found a better planet, only the gentle survived

I dreamed about it in the dark, the night I felt like I might die

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears

I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here

I hate it here

[Bridge]

I'm lonely, but I'm good

I'm bitter, but I swear I'm fine

I'll save all my romanticism for my inner life and I'll get lost on purpose

This place made me feel worthless

Lucid dreams like electricity, the current flies through me

And in my fantasies, I rise above it

And way up there, I actually love it

[Chorus]

I hate it here so I will go to secret gardens in my mind

People need a key to get to, the only one is mine

I read about it in a book when I was a precocious child

No mid-sized city hopes and small-town fears

I'm there most of the year 'cause I hate it here

I hate it here

[Outro]

Quick, quick, tell me something awful

Like you are a poet trapped inside the body of a finance guy