The lead single from All Distortions Are Intentional introduces the audience to the main character Jett and the love of his life Alice. “Lowlife” details the world they live in, one where they’re outcasts but aren’t really bothered by it. It shows how they criticize everyone else and how they all be...
[Verse 1]
My colors
Yellow and green
But I like some purple with my tangerine
Can you name me a better disease?
I'm young and dumb
Got vacancy
Got vacancy
I'm vacant
[Verse 2]
You're perfect
Perfectly clean
I'm drinking coffee on a trampoline
You think you're better than me
'Cause I'm young and dumb and vacant, see?
I'm vacant, see?
I'm vacant
[Chorus]
Oh well, oh well
You're a normie
So fucking boring
Maybe I'll see you in Hell
Mr. "I'm so important"
[Verse 3]
My dreamworld is Alice and me
My life is one big jamboree
If you feel like taking a seat
No, you can't stay
No vacancy
No vacancy
I'm vacant
[Chorus]
Oh well, oh well
You're a normie
So fucking boring
Maybe I'll see you in Hell
Mr. "I'm so important"
Mr. Important
I'm ignoring you
The king of the morning
Fucking boring
[Bridge]
So what, so what?
I'm a lowlife
Living the slow life
Baby, I'll see you in Hell
Mr. "Dead on the inside"
[Outro]
Can you name me a better disease?
I'm young and dumb
Got vacancy
At the jamboree
On a trampoline
Purple tangerine
Got vacancy (Got vacancy)
Lowlife was written by Ben Barlow & Seb Barlow & Sam Bowden & Joshua Halling & Dani Washington & Matt West.
Lowlife was produced by Matt Squire.
Ben Barlow said in an interview
Writing ‘Lowlife’, it was like I was tapping into this part of my own personality, my own psyche