Do you ever wonder why you been chasing?
When you feel like running away
Got the truth inside your mind and you hate it
Left alone with no one to blame
Like you’ve run a million miles to erase it
Really you’ve been running in place
In the crowd you’re trying to climb, trying to make it
Losing every sense of you
Chorus:
Smiling on the outside
Dying underneath
I’ve been looking through you
You ain’t fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can’t you see it’s killing you softly and slowly?
Oh cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here’s to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears
Aren’t you tired of living life in a panic?
Things you said you’d never become
Left with someone you don’t like and abandoned
Every sense of you
Chorus
I’ll be ready, I’ll be waiting if you want to leave
Cause it’s not too late to be someone you want to be
Let it out, let it out, let it out
Oh cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here’s to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears
Smiling on the outside
Dying underneath
I’ve been looking through you
You ain’t fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can’t you see it’s killing you softly and slowly?
Oh cry me those champagne tears