Mask On

I'd write a song about your shame
The pitch-black pit that knows no name
But should I though?
The secrets that nobody knows
Are precious things, Damocles' Sword
Above your head forevermore
A special hell
The kind nobody knows as well
As a liminal
Being, and a cynical
Being on the outside margins looking
In on the beautiful
Ones whose lives are always fun
Put your pretty face on as you face the world again

Masks on! Masks on! No seam to be seen
Between the image of the girl and the woman underneath
Masks on! Masks on! No seam to be found
You hold onto your practiced face and pray that it stays bound

WHOA!

You play the role like you're Shakespeare's
Insouciance covers up the fear
That they'll find out
The secret that you did without
For fifteen years, but they assumed
Some sort of seed grew within you
And when it burst
You told yourself that you'd been cursed
Like a princess doomed
To sleep forever in her tomb
Never would you find the kiss that you've been missing all
Of your life until
He came by, but it was still
Born, the child never came, he was not the same

Masks on! Masks on! The seam has been seen
Between the image of the man and the manchild underneath
Masks on! Masks on! The seam had been found
He tries to keep a braver face, and then it comes unbound

WHOA!

And if he loves you, then you can call me cupid
And if he doesn't love you tell him I said he's fucking stupid
Cause when he needs you the look in his eye
Should tell you everything you need to know about the guy
He's torn himself in two looking for a nubile womb
Let him writhe around, let his ego drown
If he loves you the way in line with what he likes to say, he'll return... or he'll burn!
The fox sashayed to be tamed, the prince had wanted a sire to his
The prince had said it was not for the rose
The fox did not believe, she had come to know
That men and their lies were the constant in her life
No one had to ask her to wear the mask

Masks on! Masks on! The seam has been seen
Between the image of the man and the manchild underneath
Masks on! Masks on! The seam had been found
He tries to keep a braver face, and then it comes unbound

WHOA!