"Everybody Wants You" by Devon Gabriella follows a lover left behind when their partner chases fame and a new golden starlet. The private bond that once felt sacred has become public property, and the abandoned partner can no longer reach the one they held when departure seemed certain. The contrast between the silver screen and the corner street captures that distance, while the favorite song everyone can sing turns intimacy into something cheap. The ache lands in realizing that being wanted by everyone leaves no room for being truly needed by one.
Everybody Wants You Lyrics by Devon Gabriella
Took your whiskey breath and records
When you fled this side of town
Found another golden starlet
Who’s convinced you’ll stick around
All the people scream your name
And think they know something about you
I had a favorite song ’til I learned everyone could sing it
I had you in my arms when I was sure that you were leaving
You’re on a silver screen, the whole place is watching
I’m still on the corner street, now everybody’s crossing
Lines I drew in an empty room
Now a packed house that I can’t push through
When I try to scream, the whole place is talking
I don’t know when you got mean or when I stopped calling
Lied through your teeth, oh, and that’s just cruel
How can you need me, babe, when everybody wants you?
(Everybody wants, everybody wants, everybody wants you)
Thought I found the only exit
But it’s one big revolving door
I know something shared by everyone’s not sacred anymore
But I’ll take what I can get
There’s a magnet in the mess of you (Mess of you)
I had a favorite song ’til I learned everyone could sing it
I had you in my arms when I was sure that you were leaving
You’re on a silver screen, the whole place is watching
I’m still on the corner street, now everybody’s crossing
Lines I drew in an empty room
Now a packed house that I can’t push through
When I try to scream, the whole place is talking
I don’t know when you got mean or when I stopped calling
Lied through your teeth, oh, and that’s just cruel
How can you need me, babe, when everybody wants you?
