Curtain Call

Here it is, your curtain call
Aren't you proud of the applause?
Fending off some fleeting feeling
I'm forgetting who I was
It's in the way that you lie to the ones that you love
The lies that you live with

You are only present when unconscious
I keep having this dream I'm being chased
I wake up right before dying

I bite my tongue
I'm drawing blood
I'll be what you want
I'll change myself enough to be someone's anyone
I lost myself
In a desperate attempt to be anybody else
Beat my words into the ground
Until the earth starts to swell
(and it swallows me whole)

Pull back your body of stone
De-gut the flesh of it all
String along everyone
Deep eyes behind the curtain

I bite my tongue
I'm drawing blood
I'll be what you want
I'll change myself enough to be someone's anyone
I lost myself
In a desperate attempt to be anybody else
Beat my words into the ground
Until the earth starts to swell

Relax and fall asleep to the beat of heavy hearts
I see the dying star guiding my way through the dark
I hear the crowd as I bow and a noise from afar
It sounds
It sounds
It sounds
Like giving up