Foreign Accent

Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving In Brooklyn, romanticising the subway The things you say to me, some would call it poetry Stood back in disbelief at all everything that lay before me In New York we put faith in impossible things I became a cool girl, strutting down seventh Avenue Body to body with an angel in the hotel room And I faced every hindrance with a villain killing stare You were there And I don't know how I ended up on this set But you're saying all the things he never said Now all I want to be is your Juliet Everything sounds better in a foreign accent I've sat in cafes, fantasising about strangers I'm never gonna see you again but something in me likes that When I get home I'll look back at photos And wonder what the hell was I thinking Everything sounds better when you're speaking I let myself, I let myself believe in us And that we wouldn't be another story gathering dust I let my guard down and gave you my all Now I'm left laying in the ashes of our downfall And I don't know how I ended up on this set But you're saying all the things he never said Now all I want to be is your Juliet Everything sounds better in a foreign accent Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving My southern boy Miss America, wore it like a badge of honour My heart is yours Mr America, served it on a silver platter My southern boy Miss America, wore it like a badge of honour My heart is yours Mr America, served it on a silver platter Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving Tell me that you love me Tell me that you need me Tell me that you'd die if you ever watched me leaving