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Lying to yourself to keep yourself sane. Believing the lies because its the only way. Trusting its the only way so that you don't break. Wishing that you broke so you didn't have to lie.
Deeply buried within lies. A secret that are not meant to be known. Round the world, trust is gone. Keys are either thrown away or buried. Scared and forbidden. Even one self is never to be trusted.
I tell this slender lie Like a glue between saner days It flicks from my lips like snaketongue Anaesthetic, ripe and rude. Don't judge me, f***er. Take away the lie And you spill my crazy.
Put on the dress, Pick out the mask. Keeping the act Is a hard task. Welcome to Facade, It's all a masquerade. Is this worth it all, The price that you have paid.
Once there was a girl. She watched the others fall, victims of love, attachment. That would never be her. Nobody ever could love her, she would never let them in.
I wonder if they know that the motivation to do anything comes from the drive of not wanting THIS THING to consume me. I wonder if they can hear my heart pounding with every lie as I claim to be okay.
Faces carefully laid. By pain and tears they were made. Choosing a different face each day. It stays perfect for it's made of clay. Hiding under the faces I own.
You act as if you're made of oil, Frictionless and thin. A sheet of plastic gliding past, An empty bag of skin.
Are you trying to convince me or yourself.
You think you're the ringmaster, I don't believe that's true. For I'm the one that wears the hat, While you have big red shoes. They all think you're funny, Yeah that makes you feel on top.
Don't say you don't believe in ghosts when you get scared watching horror movies. Don't say you don't care what people think of you when you ask everyone if anything's been said about you.
A little change here and there, No one will ever be aware. That it's me hiding under it all. Just a simple person, a simple fool. They'll think I'm smart, Put me into that box, I'll play along...
Standing in the crowd as you bask in the glow, of complements from people that you think you know.
#augustwriteaday #theatre. Each day. Starts. The same way;. Painting on. My second skin. Eyeliner, mascara. The mask I wear. To try and. Fit in. Then begins. The production. My curtain call.
Is she dumb is she wise.
Yes, I'm fine, Smiling all the time. Everything's great, Living life until it's too late. I'm a little crazy and a little mad, There's nothing bad about that. I'm perfectly safe It's all okay.
I'll ask you a simple question. When Twitter asked you to 'put up your real name' did you listened. Tell me if you didn't lie when Facebook asked you about the foreign languages you speak. I didn't.
I can count every grain of sand on the beach and that's no word of a lie. I can eat a whole apple in one and that's no word of a lie. I can run around naked in the snow and that's no word of a lie.
Maybe, things just aren't what they seem, there's more than what meets the eye, but you're oblivious. You only see the hard surface, you only see the mask.
Bleeding heart for you, in love with you. Bleeding love for you, consumed by you. Thought I'd never find you, yet there you are. It is eating me and you, as liars we are.
She thinks I'm great and I let her. Must improve, a family to inspire: Im head of this clan and I want to be better, But I'm not, I'm a liar.
She makes up her hair, in perfect dispair. Her eyes lit for love, when she's faking. In her heart, Many secret stars. She can't wait to show, what she's taking.
Everyone thought they knew her... Her look, her smile, her gaze. But everything she did was fake. Living life is a series of plays. As she unfolded her personality, People horrored, and ran with...
When you saw me smiling today, I seemed so genuine and true. My mask, my cape, my disguise deffinatly fooled you. Tucked up in the corner of my neck, there is a mask you can peel.