A vanishing act, run as a dare. She tells you up front she comes and goes and isn't here for long, so the disappearing is the terms of the deal and not the tragedy. Catch me or I go Houdini — the threat doubles as the invitation. She keeps raising the bar on you: prove you've got the right to please her, practice what you preach, give her something that'll make her believe. It plays like a woman who can't be held, right up until the post-chorus lets the other thing slip out. Maybe you could cause a girl to change her ways. Maybe you could be the one to make me stay. The whole escape trick was a test someone was supposed to pass.
She bills herself as the one who always slips the cuffs and spends the entire time hoping you're good enough to make the trick fail.
She lays out the rules like a magician naming the trick before it starts. She comes and she goes, she's not here for long, and the only way to keep her is to catch her. The exit stays open on purpose. She's daring you to be the reason she doesn't take it.
Now she's raising the bar. Everything you say sounds sweet, but she wants to know if you practice what you preach. Prove you've got the right to please her. The sweetness isn't enough on its own. She needs something that'll make her believe.
The game cracks for a second. If you're good enough, you'll find the way, and maybe you could cause a girl to change her ways. Under all the coming and going is the line she almost doesn't want to say out loud. Maybe you could be the one to make me stay.
“Catch me or I go Houdini”
A vanishing act, run as a dare. She tells you up front she comes and goes and isn't here for long, so the disappearing is the terms of the deal and not the tragedy. Catch me or I go Houdini — the threat doubles as the invitation. She keeps raising the bar on you: prove you've got the right to please her, practice what you preach, give her something that'll make her believe. It plays like a woman who can't be held, right up until the post-chorus lets the other thing slip out. Maybe you could cause a girl to change her ways. Maybe you could be the one to make me stay. The whole escape trick was a test someone was supposed to pass.
She bills herself as the one who always slips the cuffs and spends the entire time hoping you're good enough to make the trick fail.
She lays out the rules like a magician naming the trick before it starts. She comes and she goes, she's not here for long, and the only way to keep her is to catch her. The exit stays open on purpose. She's daring you to be the reason she doesn't take it.
Now she's raising the bar. Everything you say sounds sweet, but she wants to know if you practice what you preach. Prove you've got the right to please her. The sweetness isn't enough on its own. She needs something that'll make her believe.
The game cracks for a second. If you're good enough, you'll find the way, and maybe you could cause a girl to change her ways. Under all the coming and going is the line she almost doesn't want to say out loud. Maybe you could be the one to make me stay.
“Catch me or I go Houdini”
It found you. You kept it.
See where it could land.
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