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"Only Living Girl in L.A." is a song by Halsey that is featured as the first track of her fifth studio album The Great Impersonator. It was released Occtober 25, 2024 through Columbia Records.


Background[]

On September 25, 2024, the song's title was revealed and it was also confirmed to be the first track on the album.

On October 24, 2024, Halsey posted a photo and video of her dressed as American model and actress Marilyn Monroe teasing the song; however, the posts did not have a snippet of the song, with Halsey saying that fans would have to wait to hear the full song when it was released the following day along with the rest of the album. The posts teasing the song were posted as part of the countdown to the album's release, with the posts teasing the song being released on day eighteen, the final day of the countdown.

Lyrics[]

[Verse 1]
I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County
I'm the only one who sees (Ahh)
I wake up every day in some new kind of suffering
I've never known a day of peace
I wonder if I ever left behind my body (Ooh)
Do you think they'd laugh at how I die? (Ahh)
Or take a photo of my family in the lobby
The ceremony's small inside (small)
'Cause I don't know if I could sell out my own funeral (Ah-ah)
At least, not at this point in time (Ah-ah)
And if I ever try to leave behind my body (If I ever try)
Well, at least I know it was never mine
It was never mine, it was never mine (mine), it was never mine (mine)

[Verse 2]
Well, I'm the only girl alive in New York City
I left my wallet on the train
Since I no longer even have a driver's license
I guess that means I have no name (This is Halsey Street)
And I could run away to somewhere on the West Coast (somewhere on the West Coast)
And finally be a real life girl
They'll take my organs and they'll hang me from a bedpost
Sayin' I was too soft for this world
And they'd be right, because quite frankly, to be alive
It shouldn't kill me every day, the way it does
I don't know what I did to have this fate, I'm drenched in it (Ohh)
And I can't even run from what I know (Ohh)
My special talent isn't writing, it's not singing (it's's not singing)
It's feeling everything that everyone alive feels every day (everyone alive feels every day)
Feels every day, feels every day, feels every day (feels every day, yeah, ah, feels every day, yeah, ah)

[Verse 3]
I think I'm special 'cause I cut myself wide open (I'm not special I'm [?])
As if it's honorable to bleed
But I'm not lucky and I know I wasn’t chosen
The world keeps spinnin' without me
I told my mother I would die by twenty-seven (die by twenty-seven)
And in a way I sort of did
This thing I love has grown demanding and obsessive
And it wants more than I can give, than I can give, than I can give (it wants more than I can give)
Than I can give (it wants more than I can give)

[Verse 4]
Well, I'm the only girl alive in L.A. County
I've never known a day of peace (Aah)
I wake up every day and wish that I was different
I look around and it's just me
It's just me, it's just me

[Outro]
Ah-ah, ah-ah-ah
Ooh, ayy
Wee-ooh, wee-ooh, yeah-yeah (Let's go)
Ah-ah-ah
I'm the only one, the only one, it's me

Trivia[]

  • This is the only song on the album to not receive a snippet
The Great Impersonator
October 25, 2024 • Columbia Records
Songs
Standard 1 Only Living Girl in L.A. • 2 Ego • 3 Dog Years • 4 Letter to God (1974) • 5 Panic Attack • 6 The End • 7 I Believe in Magic • 8 Letter to God (1983) • 9 Hometown • 10 I Never Loved You • 11 Darwinism • 12 Lonely is the Muse • 13 Arsonist • 14 Life of the Spider (Draft) • 15 Hurt Feelings • 16 Lucky • 17 Letter to God (1998) • 18 The Great Impersonator
Digital Exclusives Charades (1970's)Lessons (1980's)Nothing! (1990's)Alice of the Upper Class (Y2K)Afraid of the Dark (Demo) (Bonus)
Artist(s)
Halsey