Culture Of Vanity

Time takes its toll on the surface of skin
Try to disguise alteration within
A dying denial, the lie of your life
Truth hiding under the knife

How has society found itself here?
Selfish, the lie that you're desperate to hear
Bred to pursue hedonistic intent
Is this what you thought the world meant?

Dropping deep to your disgrace
Try to keep the lines from your face
Mirror twisting your despair
Try to hide from what you see there
Worthless life that you regret
Somehow you can't see the end yet
Paying for insanity and preying on your vanity

Is this the lie you're living by?
Is this the way you want to die?

Is this the lie (or do you want the answer?)
You're living by?
Is this the way (eats you away like cancer)
You want to die?

Hail to the slave, from the cradle to the grave
Is the tale, as your youth and beauty fail
Like the fool, not afraid to break the rule
Of intent, as you wondered what it meant

Spent an eternity clutching at youth
Culture of vanity hiding the truth
That you spent so long in love with yourself
You forgot everyone else

If at the end you were asked what you did
Would you reveal the secrets you hid?
Years that you wasted, a life self-obsessed
Would you remember the rest?

Dropping deep to your disgrace
Try to keep the lines from your face
Mirror twisting your despair
Try to hide from what you see there
Worthless life that you regret
Somehow you can't see the end yet
Paying for insanity and preying on your vanity