Never Meant to Stay Cool

Verse

Ice is melting in the glass I set down slow

Neon spelling out a name I used to know

Marble floor still warm from a hundred feet

Trumpet leaning into something bittersweet

Pre-Chorus

So what's the harm in losing

The mask I came here wearing

Can I just let the rhythm

Take me where it's going

Chorus

I was never meant to stay cool

Not with that bassline calling my name

I was never meant to stay cool

Kick off my shoes, let the sequins catch flame

Twenty-three floors up and the whole city's glowing

I'm just a heartbeat nobody's owning

Tonight I'm free, tonight I'm free

And I was never meant to stay cool

Verse

Saxophone player winks like he knows my name

Spinning on the parquet, nothing left to blame

Watch stopped at midnight, hanging off my wrist

Every careful version of me I dismiss

Pre-Chorus

So what's the harm in losing

The mask I came here wearing

Can I just let the rhythm

Take me where it's going

Chorus

I was never meant to stay cool

Not with that bassline calling my name

I was never meant to stay cool

Kick off my shoes, let the sequins catch flame

Twenty-three floors up and the whole city's glowing

I'm just a heartbeat nobody's owning

Tonight I'm free, tonight I'm free

And I was never meant to stay cool

Bridge

Someday I'll wake up folded and quiet

Back in the beige of my ordinary life

But right now the mirror ball's spinning me golden

And I'm not asking why

Chorus

I was never meant to stay cool

Not with that bassline calling my name

I was never meant to stay cool

Kick off my shoes, let the sequins catch flame

Twenty-three floors up and the whole city's glowing

I'm just a heartbeat nobody's owning

Tonight I'm free, tonight I'm free

And I was never meant to stay cool