Alice debuted Lips Apart live in 2018 at the first Australian date of the SnowBlood Tour.
The long awaited studio version of the song was released 4 years after the live debut on September 21, 2022.
Her bandmate and producer, Jupiter io, posted an Instagram story on the day of the release, saying...
[Verse 1]
Leave me alone I will never belong
Leave me in the room where my feelings won’t thaw
Don’t look at me now I’m a scratch I’m a flaw
A gangrenous limb that will soon be cut off
Lead us to temptation to hang on a cross
The way that I pictured the world was so wrong
I’m a rag doll a cadaver of cloth
Sew me together then pull me apart
Sew my together then rip me apart
[Chorus]
Is this the way it hurts
Is this the way it happens
Is this the way, I don’t even feel anything
Don’t even feel anything
Lips apart
Is this the way it hurts
Is this the way it happens
Is this the way, I don’t even feel anything
Don’t even feel anything
I Don’t even feel anything
[Verse 3]
I thought that I gave you all I had of me
But now you’re pulling out my teeth and hair
Lips Apart
As I drift away beneath the river bed
Could you pretend that I was never there
[Chorus]
Lips Apart
Is this the way it hurts
Is this the way it happens
Is this the way, I don’t even feel anything
Don’t even feel anything
Lips apart
Is this the way it hurts
Is this the way it happens
Is this the way, I don’t even feel anything
Don’t even feel anything
Lips Apart
[Outro]
Leave me alone
Lead me on
Give me away
Leave me alone so my feelings won’t show
Leave me alone
Lead me on
Give me away
Leave me alone so my feelings won’t show
Lips Apart
Leave me alone
Lead me on
Give me away
Leave me alone so my feelings won’t show
Leave me alone
Lead me on
Give me away
Leave me alone so my feelings won’t show
Leave me alone so my feelings won’t show
Lips Apart was written by Jupiter Keyes & Alice Glass.
Lips Apart was produced by Jupiter Keyes.
Alice Glass released Lips Apart on Wed Sep 21 2022.