Cover art for Like A Drug by Charming Liars
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Like A Drug Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Why you gotta keep me waiting?
Why you gotta keep on hounding me?
Why you gotta dance my heartbeat to a twisted melody?

[Verse 2]
When you gonna lose the interest?
When you gonna fucking bury me?
When you gonna let me tightrope slip and induce that gravity?

[Pre-Chorus]
Oh I lay with the enemy
And she's cold, cold, cold
She moves like a deity
Who turns me to stone, stone

[Chorus]
You love me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug
You'll end me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug

[Verse 3]
How you gonna keep me breathing?
How you gonna keep those hooks in me?
How you gonna keep my pulse awake with your synthetic empathy?
[Pre-Chorus]
Oh I lay with the enemy
And she's cold, cold, cold
She moves like a deity
Who turns me to stone, stone

[Chorus]
You love me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug
You'll end me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug

[Bridge]
You love me like a drug, like a drug
Sweeter the high, deeper the love
You end me like a drug, like a drug
Your taste is a vice and it's killing me slow

[Chorus]
You love me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug
You'll end me like a drug, like a drug
Drug like a drug, drug like a drug

[Outro]
Like a drug, like a drug
Like a drug, like a drug

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Like A Drug is the second song from Thought, Flesh and Bones.

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What did Charming Liars say about "Like A Drug"?
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Charming Liars guitarist Karnig Manoukian shared with Alternative Press:

“Like A Drug” is about every failed escape that brings you that much closer to the thing you know you should be running from. I think most people can relate to the feelings of a toxic relationship in some way or another. That’s what makes the theme of this song so universal. “Like A Drug” captures two things that humanity knows all too well: pain and love. In the pain of love lies the rites of passage that bring us all together.

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Release Date
April 5, 2018
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