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Inspired by: Leon Else - Cheap Hotel

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Baby I'm bad
God only knows
And you deserve more
Than the lover you chose
Cause you are all any man could want
But the dark in me
I can't control

Irene and Seulgi met each other during sophomore year of high school. They instantly clicked and have been together ever since. Right after college, the couple got married. Everyone believed they would last forever, soulmates so to speak.

And it's not right
And it's not fair
I know, no
Cause you trust me
When I'm not there
You don't know

Two years into their marriage and the honeymoon phase was over, at least for Irene. Something just changed, Irene didn't know how, when or why. It just did. Her love for Seulgi used to be so passionate, now it's as if she became numb. Irene doesn't let Seulgi know that something went wrong, but at night...

I know it's fucked up
But I'm living a lie
In a cheap hotel
Is where I'm sleeping tonight
With someone I just met
While the love of my life
Is at home
Probably wondering if I'm dead or alive
I turn my phone and my consciense
Off at the same time
In the morning I'mma tell her
That my battery died
We were supposed to go
To the cinema at night
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind

Irene drinks and drinks and drinks. That's how she ended up with some stranger she just met. No name, no age, no nothing. Just sex.

In a cheap hotel with someone I just met
In a cheap hotel with someone I just met

One faithful morning, she came home to a sleeping Seulgi. She noticed the dried tear stains on her wife's cheeks, the puffiness and redness of her face. And for the first time in months, she feels something. As if her reality finally hit her. Irene promises to herself that she would treat Seulgi better, and it works. They go on dates and spend more time together.

I am ashamed
I'm a disgrace
As I look round this room
Empty bottles and clothes all over the place
I'm a liar
I'm a user
It's true, true
You would hate me
If you knew what
I do

But it is all short lived. Another date night, another person in bed. She doesn't know where it went, once again, wrong. The room is filled with moans and groans. The nameless person moans her name when she comes undone, and than reality sets in. This is wrong, this is not her wife, this is not the person that she promised to love and cherish for the rest of her life. And than she herself comes undone.

I know it's fucked up
But I'm living a lie
In a cheap hotel
Is where I'm sleeping tonight
With someone I just met
While the love of my life
Is at home
Probably wondering if I'm dead or alive
I turn my phone and my consciense
Off at the same time
In the morning I'mma tell her
That my battery died
We were supposed to go
To the cinema at night
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind

Afterwards, she turns her phone on. 28 missed calls, 46 unread texts and even 3 private messages on facebook, all from her wife. And she silently cries, wondering if she could turn back time to stop herself from cheating on Seulgi. Hoping that she could somehow prevent all of this.

In a cheap hotel with someone I just met
In a cheap hotel with someone I just met
In a cheap hotel with someone I just met
In a cheap hotel with someone I just met

Another night, another person. This time however, Irene drank triple the amount that she could handle. A new girl with a familiar face. And she wonders amidst the moans, the thrusts of the girls fingers and the flicks of the girls tongue: 'Where have I seen her before?'.

I know it's fucked up
But I'm living a lie
In a cheap hotel
Is where I'm sleeping tonight
With someone I just met
While the love of my life
Is at home
Probably wondering if I'm dead or alive
I turn my phone and my consciense
Off at the same time
In the morning I'mma tell her
That my battery died
We were supposed to go
To the cinema at night
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind
Now it's one and I bet
She's going out of her mind

And when she wakes up all alone, she remembers.

In a cheap hotel with someone I just met
In a cheap hotel with someone I just met

The first girl was her ex, Kim Yongsun.

The second girl was her wife's best friend, Son Seungwan.

And she wonders once again, where it went wrong. Could she fix the mess she caused? Even if the divorce papers were on the bedside table. As the third girl was her own tear stained wife, Kang Seulgi.

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