Second Best

[Verse]
You touch my skin like it’s borrowed time
Your eyes say stay but your heart’s a crime
I’m the echo in the hall you never hear

[Prechorus]
But I crave this hollow burn
Even if I’ll never earn
A place in the light

[Chorus]
I’m second best but I feel alive
This ache’s the only proof I survive
Your love’s a ghost but it’s still near
It’s worth what my demons fear

[Verse 2]
You leave fingerprints that don’t belong
I’m the hook in your half-finished song
But I hum along like I don’t care

[Prechorus]
I’d rather drown in this same old flood
Than run from the taste of your blood
On my name tonight

[Chorus]
I’m second best but I feel alive
This ache’s the only proof I survive
Your love’s a ghost but it’s still near
It’s worth what my demons fear