Neon Mask

Silver hair in the blue TV glow

Everybody said he ran the show

Gold chains

Cards for the kids to sign

All those smiles hiding crooked lines

We grew up dancing to a dead-end dream

Thought the shine was what it seemed

Every badge

Every backstage pass

Built on bones buried in the past

Take off the neon mask

What’s underneath the laugh?

All of the hurt he dressed in glitter

All of the truth they turned to whispers

Turn up the static now

We’re not staying quiet now

Turning the cameras on the shadows

Rip off the halo

Take off the neon mask

Old tapes

They don’t play the same

Once you learn all the faces of pain

Broken voices in a midnight hall

Signed their names just to lose it all

We were kids in a rigged arcade

Every prize was a hidden blade

But the dark can’t win this time

We write our names across the sky

Take off the neon mask

What’s underneath the laugh?

All of the hurt he dressed in glitter

All of the truth they turned to whispers

Turn up the static now

We’re not staying quiet now

Turning the cameras on the shadows

Rip off the halo

Take off the neon mask

To every kid who was never believed (hey)

You’re not a story they’re allowed to delete

We’re the chorus that you didn’t get to sing

We’re the light that he can’t outrun

Take off the neon mask

What’s underneath the laugh?

All of the hurt he dressed in glitter

All of the truth they turned to whispers

Turn up the static now

We’re not staying quiet now

Turning the cameras on the shadows

Rip off the halo

Take off the neon mask