Masquerade Skin

Red lipstick on like armor

Smile stitched sharp and clean

High heels on a fault line

Balancing what they want and what I mean

Eyes like shuttered windows

Tinted from the strain

Who would I be

If I stepped out of this frame?

The mask we wear

So pretty

So poison

Painted calm over quiet despair

The mask we wear

Cracks in the porcelain

Say my name

Through the costume I bear

The mask we wear

The mask we wear

Scroll through crafted moments

Angles

Light

And lies

Every filtered version

Further from my eyes

Call me by my handle

You don’t know my scars

If I dropped this character

Would you still call me a star?

The mask we wear

So pretty

So poison

Painted calm over quiet despair

The mask we wear

Cracks in the porcelain

Say my name

Through the costume I bear

The mask we wear

The mask we wear

Peel it back slow

(raw and shaking)

What’s left when the glow

Stops faking?

If I let you see

All that I hide

Will you hold my face

Or reach for the disguise?

The mask we wear

So pretty

So poison

Painted calm over quiet despair

The mask we wear

Cracks in the porcelain

Say my name

Through the costume I bear

The mask we wear

Until we dare

To walk out bare

From the mask we wear