[Verse 1: Sie]
If I could smile a thousand smiles
Fake I'm good for a while, I would
But I don't think that I should
'Cause then you'd never know what goes on in my mind
I guess I'll just stay misunderstood

[Pre-Chorus: Sie]
But it can get lonely sometimes
I wish that you'd hold me most nights
But it can get lonely sometimes
I wish that you'd hold me most nights

[Chorus: Sie, Kamal., Both]
Kerosene
I've been burning at both ends to be here
Kerosene, yeah
I've been burning at both ends in secret

[Verse 2: Kamal.]
All of my friends are sad lately
And my dad says that
It's evidence of the prevalence of pathology
So I took his car out south
And ended up crashing it
Hoping that he'd see an ambulance as an analogy
Close your eyes, you're polarised and chronically online
I spend all my life drinkin' a white light from a screen
Half the time I'm half-alive, my brain is barely mine
Probably should have never fell in love with this lack of self-esteem
[Chorus: Kamal., Kamal. & Sie]
Kerosene, uh
I'm burning at both ends to be here
Kerosene (Kerosene)
I'm burning at both ends in secret

[Post-Chorus: Kamal. & Sie]
If I could smile a thousand smiles
Fake I'm good for a while, I would
But I don't think that I should
'Cause then you'd never know what goes on in my mind
I guess I'll just stay misunderstood

[Outro: Sie]
But it can get lonely sometimes
I wish that you'd hold me most nights
But it can get lonely sometimes
I wish that you'd hold me most nights