Lyrics
[intro- spoken]
Come all! I have for you a special performance, an act so convincing you won't ever know if-
[instrumental intro]
[verse 1]
A pleasing smile, Behold
I’ll be as an actor on this stage show
Called life
Act alike
Agree to agree
(That’s not me, not really)
But still
Plaster a smile
(nod along)
Stay awhile
(Longer than I want to)
Oh yeah
Woah
Much longer than I’d like to
[pre-chorus]
I want them to be happy
I want them to notice
I want them to like me
I want...
I want...
I want...
[chorus]
All of king Midas’s gold
Bought only his misery
Oh i, oh I see
That the happiest days I hold,
Are the ones where I lead
This life ahead of me
Appearances are just masks
So I ask
Can you let go,
Let go of this false reality
[verse 2]
I'd do anything you ask
(I don't want to)
Keep my mountainous feelings back
(just to please you)
I'd have taken the bullet
the noose
the blame
made my bed in this hell only to keep you
[male]
WAIT
You do this to please them
to ease their selfish fears
but you
your own request falls on deaf ears?
Don't you see the folly
you're wrong
[female]
Don't
[male]
Your place in this world is defined
by the line
of the separation you make
from yourself and the others
you love them
but you have to love yourself
[bridge]
[tempo increase]
Keep perspective and
Don't go if
if the feeling in your bones
tells you you're alone
(alone)
Keep your resolve and
don't fall for
the blind faith you learned so long ago
All the things you needed will be found in you
once you start to see it
The truth of yourself is the only truth
to hold on to
but don't cling to
the want of another's light
You are your own light
[pre-chorus]
I want to be happy
I want to notice the clouds in the sky
I want to love me
I am...
I am...
I am...
[chorus]
All of king Midas’s gold
Bought only his misery
Oh i, oh I see
That the happiest days I hold,
Are the ones where I lead
This life ahead of me
Appearances are just masks
So I will
I will let go,
Let go of this false reality
