Do you ever wonder why you been chasing?
When you feel like running away
Got the truth inside your mind and you hate it
Left alone with no one to blame

Like you've run a million miles to erase it
Really you've been running in place
In the crowds you're tryna climb, tryna make it
Losing every sense of you

Smiling on the outside, dying underneath
I've been looking through you
You ain't fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can't you see it's killing you softly and slowly?

Oh, cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here's to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears

Aren't you tired of living life in a panic?
Things you said you'd never become
Left with someone you don't like and abandoned
Every sense of you

Smiling on the outside, dying underneath
I've been looking through you
You ain't fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can't you see it's killing you softly and slowly?

Oh, cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here's to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears

I'll be ready, I'll be waiting if you wanna leave
'Cause it's not too late to be someone you wanna be
Let it out, let it out, let it out

Oh, cry me those champagne tears
Cry me those champagne tears
Here's to the pain you feel
Cry me those champagne tears

Smiling on the outside, dying underneath
I've been looking through you
You ain't fooling me
Aiming for the good life
All you think you need
Can't you see it's killing you softly and slowly?
Oh, cry me those champagne tears