You live in fear
The animal in you just can't accept the cold veneer you perceive to be the truth
Just when you think you're safe a new one comes along and settles in your place
How do you rate?
If you could hear the truth, you would, but defeat would be too great
It's never worth the pain
The luxury of life so wasted on the vain
A million losing battles can't explain
When you escape
You'd love to find the place where a glance is just a glance and a face is just a face
But up until you do, you'll find a fresh young friend who's got a friend or two
And what a problem it creates for you
You never see the old within the new
I'd fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done
Because I'm dying over here under the sun
Resigned too late
To the damning way of fate
You're not the fairest of the fair or the greatest of the great
You scrutinize your face, and everything you see is everything you hate
The mirror has this way of reading you the way you hope that people never do
I'd fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done, because I'm dying over here under the sun
So is it really still that game?
Wallow in your shame until you wish it were last year or any other day
Silent in your cell
Slowly being swallowed by your hell
And is it me who can't address
The trouble with success or how you fit into the world?
But never in that dress
It's hard to get your way when everything you do trumps everything you say
So which one is it going to be today?
The lying and the truth just feel the same
I'd fall in love with anyone
Tell me what needs to be done, because I'm dying over here under the sun