Masquerade
They told me, "Step into the wardrobe
There you'll find a magical kingdom
And you'll be crowned as royalty
Everybody is doing it"
So pardon me if I don't jump at the opportunity to be my own person
I just want to be like everyone else
But when everyone else
Wants to be like everyone else
Who is the everyone else
Everyone else wants to be?
Raise the curtains - my mask is on
Raided the dressin' room and I'm gonna perform
This character's expensive but I've got a poor form
That's united with inability to act: poor form
So I'm charging others' time to pay it all off per form
When will anyone see my true form?
So many separate faces I forgot about the uniform
Who the heck am I? Will someone please inform
Me of who I really am so that the real me is formed?
Find out that I'm frontin' anytime I get in uniform
U N I form who I am
Who am I to missform this plan
In that misinformation there's a missing piece
The missing link in this chain of identity and
I need to take the makeup off and quit makin' things up
Can I make up for all the times that I fake and front?
How long can I continue this masquerade?
This character is more than a mask: it's a cage
I need to find some way to disengage
From this fake identity
Identity theft: I definitely left
Defining my ID as an indefinite
Deception drawing me to
Deep incentives of desired acceptance
I accept
The invitation
To join in the nation
Of the plastic people
Go and check the attendance
Misguided intentions to attend to the infection
With an existence of resistance
But I can't stand this resist stance
Takes two to tango, but I'm unable to dance
'Cause the way my partner's leading I'm feeling suppressed
By the pressure of the people poking pain at my blemishes
Catch 'em, mask 'em, and patch 'em up
Everybody pretends to be somebody they're not
Hoping just to be accepted and in deceit remain uncaught
If you don't then you're lyin', but truthfully, we all are
Liars
How long can I continue this masquerade?
This character is more than a mask: it's a cage
I need to find some way to disengage
From this fake identity
Anytime I try to be myself I'm insecure
Will someone please convince me that I'm in secure
Hands
But I'm afraid I'll only be let down if my security is friends
'Cause friendly faces force me to face this
Fact that I'm falsely forcing a facade
I'm faceless
Question: ever feel like you're always less than
Who you wanna be despite all that you're investin'
In life
It ain't right
I might invest in a gate to hide my true self from the world
But if you investigate
In my vest you'll find a gate that's a door to my heart
I may crawl out and shed this skin of an investigate-or
Not a reptile - I'll be who I am
Take the jump and hope to land on an escalator
If they accept me then I'll fly
If they reject me this is suicide
My toes are on the edge of the cliff: this is do or die
There you'll find a magical kingdom
And you'll be crowned as royalty
Everybody is doing it"
So pardon me if I don't jump at the opportunity to be my own person
I just want to be like everyone else
But when everyone else
Wants to be like everyone else
Who is the everyone else
Everyone else wants to be?
Raise the curtains - my mask is on
Raided the dressin' room and I'm gonna perform
This character's expensive but I've got a poor form
That's united with inability to act: poor form
So I'm charging others' time to pay it all off per form
When will anyone see my true form?
So many separate faces I forgot about the uniform
Who the heck am I? Will someone please inform
Me of who I really am so that the real me is formed?
Find out that I'm frontin' anytime I get in uniform
U N I form who I am
Who am I to missform this plan
In that misinformation there's a missing piece
The missing link in this chain of identity and
I need to take the makeup off and quit makin' things up
Can I make up for all the times that I fake and front?
How long can I continue this masquerade?
This character is more than a mask: it's a cage
I need to find some way to disengage
From this fake identity
Identity theft: I definitely left
Defining my ID as an indefinite
Deception drawing me to
Deep incentives of desired acceptance
I accept
The invitation
To join in the nation
Of the plastic people
Go and check the attendance
Misguided intentions to attend to the infection
With an existence of resistance
But I can't stand this resist stance
Takes two to tango, but I'm unable to dance
'Cause the way my partner's leading I'm feeling suppressed
By the pressure of the people poking pain at my blemishes
Catch 'em, mask 'em, and patch 'em up
Everybody pretends to be somebody they're not
Hoping just to be accepted and in deceit remain uncaught
If you don't then you're lyin', but truthfully, we all are
Liars
How long can I continue this masquerade?
This character is more than a mask: it's a cage
I need to find some way to disengage
From this fake identity
Anytime I try to be myself I'm insecure
Will someone please convince me that I'm in secure
Hands
But I'm afraid I'll only be let down if my security is friends
'Cause friendly faces force me to face this
Fact that I'm falsely forcing a facade
I'm faceless
Question: ever feel like you're always less than
Who you wanna be despite all that you're investin'
In life
It ain't right
I might invest in a gate to hide my true self from the world
But if you investigate
In my vest you'll find a gate that's a door to my heart
I may crawl out and shed this skin of an investigate-or
Not a reptile - I'll be who I am
Take the jump and hope to land on an escalator
If they accept me then I'll fly
If they reject me this is suicide
My toes are on the edge of the cliff: this is do or die
Credits
Writer(s): Brendan Leonard
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