Stuck in Illusions

Intro – Soft falsetto, distant harmonies

Ooh, I think I'm losing my mind again

Mmm, am I dreaming or remembering?

There's a world inside my head

Where you still love me like you said

Verse 1

I've been living where the sunlight never fades

Building little castles out of yesterday

I see your silhouette in every crowded room

But when I reach for you, there's nothing I can hold on to

Maybe I'm addicted to the way it used to feel

Romanticizing things that never really healed

I tell myself that everything is fine

But I'm just chasing shadows in the back of my mind

Pre-Chorus – Layered harmonies

And I know, I know

That it's all inside my head

But I can't, I can't

Let go of what we never had

Chorus – Emotional falsetto

I'm stuck in illusions

Falling for a love that's only moving through me

Caught up in a dream I can't wake up from

Tell me, is it love or am I just in love with someone?

Oh, I'm losing my vision

Can't tell the truth from my imagination

I keep reaching for something that isn't there

I'm stuck in illusions, pretending that you care

Verse 2

Maybe heaven is a place I made for you

Somewhere in the clouds where everything was true

I gave you every version of myself

While you were somewhere loving somebody else

And it's funny how the mind can rearrange

All the little memories until they look like fate

I made a masterpiece of all your lies

Put a halo on an angel in disguise

Pre-Chorus – Gentle harmonies

And I know, I know

There's no going back again

But somehow, somehow

I keep letting you back in

Chorus – Full harmonies

I'm stuck in illusions

Falling for a love that's only moving through me

Caught up in a dream I can't wake up from

Tell me, is it love or am I just in love with someone?

Oh, I'm losing my vision

Can't tell the truth from my imagination

I keep reaching for something that isn't there

I'm stuck in illusions, pretending that you care

Bridge – Minimal piano, intimate vocals

If I close my eyes, you're still beside me

If I open them, there's nobody

Maybe I'm afraid of what I'll find

When I finally leave this world behind

(Background vocals: Leave it behind, leave it behind)

Was it ever real?

Was it how I feel?

Or did I make you everything

Because I couldn't face the emptiness?

Outro – Layered falsetto, fading reverb

Ooh, just another illusion

Another night of confusion

I keep seeing what I wanna see

When the truth is standing right in front of me

Mmm, I'm still dreaming

Still believing

In a love that only lives inside my head

I'm stuck...

I'm stuck in illusions.