Allie, what would you do?

When there's bombs in the Middle East, you want to hurt yourself

When there's knives in the city streets, you want to end yourself

When there's fun in your mother's house, you want to cry yourself to sleep

Allie, what would you do?

With your fears, because they're adding one by one

And your mountains are obscured behind the sun

And the person that you could be is crumbling into dust

You're in the mess 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

Allie, hand on your head

And a prayer from the soon-to-be-closing library

And if you looked from here, you would surely see

There's a softness in your heart, there's a poetry to come

You bought that gun 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

You made a list of all your heroes

And you thought about what they went through

Yeah, you thought about what they went through

It's much darker, much harder, than anything that happened to you

Allie, what would you do?

When your seven-year plan happens to someone else

And the people in your life you would happily shelf

When day falls night, you are truly on your own?

You're in this place 'cause you thought

You'd be someone else

But the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a lie

Yeah, the tricks in your head are a

Tricks in your head are a lie