Name: Gem
Duration: P00H04M28S
Description: "Each song on postromantic focuses on a different couple of characters," writes Vivienne Wilder. "But they're all one-sided conversations. ‘Gem’ is just a night in the life of the ‘other woman’. I like to call this one a 'sad groupie song.'"

Gem

from postromantic by Vivienne Wilder

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"Each song on postromantic focuses on a different couple of characters," writes Vivienne Wilder. "But they're all one-sided conversations. ‘Gem’ is just a night in the life of the ‘other woman’. I like to call this one a 'sad groupie song.'"

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It's 4 in the morning
Standing in the boulevard
Trying to get a reaction
Trying way too hard
You don't have an answer
I'm just a girl you kissed
You leave in 4 hours
You gotta drive first shift

But I'm trying to be someone, trying to be someone
Trying to be someone you could lean on

Your girlfriend seems real cool
You say we'd get along
Though I don't regret it
I know too well that this is wrong
We're both falling over
Surviving ear to mouth
Whispering bitter everythings
As our friends fall asleep on the floor & the couch

But I'm trying to be someone…

Now she's shooting out the streetlamps with reckless Armageddon
You drop my hand, it's over; it'll never feel like that again
I wish that I could listen to Mozart's Requiem
Without that dull reminder of you, you jerk, you gem

But I'm trying to be someone…

It's 4 in the morning
Standing in the boulevard

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from postromantic, released June 12, 2020

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