i will change i will change i swear just tell me what to do just tell me who to be and i ll be who you want me to pretend i don t exist you won t know i m in the room i ll be the ghost of something that used to mean something to you this beaten up heart is lost and confused i wish that my younger self was here he d know just what to do boy could he talk well he d know just what to say moving up is moving on from where you came stop me if i m boring you i m painfully aware that you ve got better ways to waste your time time time i will change i will change i swear just tell me what to do just tell me who to be and i ll be who you want me to pretend i don t exist you won t know i m in the room i ll be the ghost of something that used to mean something to you say this isn t real say this was a joke say there s still space for me in bed cause i can t live alone oh pitiful me i ll do anything you say i d soon as suffocate with you than stay away and i knew all this years ago but couldn t take the hint you match my overcompensation with your own ambivalence i will change i will change i swear just tell me what to do just tell me who to be and i ll be who you want me to pretend i don t exist you won t know i m in the room i ll be the ghost of something that used to mean something to you  when i got the call i was on the road three weeks in europe til i got home so what would make you stay i ll build a mountain i ll change my name i don t have to breathe if all my air gets in your way i will change i will change i swear just tell me what to do just tell me who to be and i ll be who you want me to pretend i don t exist you won t know i m in the room i ll be the ghost of something that used to mean something to you that should ve meant something to you1