Bittersweet 16

Gold party dresses and half-baked confessions Fleeting obsessions on anything new Millions of questions about my existence And if I'm even cool By now, I thought that I'd checked off some boxes Keep kickin' my bucket list right down the street They say I'm too young to think about love But without it, I feel incomplete Another year full of static, mid-June feels so tragic I lie here, cry here Less melodramatic, more anticlimactic I'm all out of tears What a bittersweet sixteen (Hmm, hmm) When I was younger, I used to wonder If I'd have a boyfriend and we'd love each other He'd tell me I'm pretty and make me feel nice But I just feel shitty, surprise My childhood's wastin' and I'm scared to face it I'm halfway to halfway to a midlife crisis And I can't even drive yet, maybe I should get my license Maybe I should get this life thing figured out Another year full of static, mid-June feels so tragic I lie here, cry here Less melodramatic, more anticlimactic I'm all out of tears What a bittersweet sixteen Time of my life, is it downhill from here? I refuse to believe they're the best of my years My mind makes up stories, but they sure don't help 'Cause the me in my head is just worse than myself Like a candle burning out Another year full of static, mid-June feels so tragic I lie here, cry here Less melodramatic, more anticlimactic I'm all out of tears What a bittersweet sixteen