I could pretend that I like what I see
I could pretend to feel what I believe
If he's free or if he looks like me
unequivocally, it is not meant to be
So I'll falsify some happiness
So that others can relate
I'll try to keep my eye
on the expiration date
In my mind, I know true beauty
In my mind, I want to be
In my mind, the vision is complete
How can this ever manifest defeat?
Seven days a week, I'll make my muscles contract
I'll take my teeth, straightened and ungapped
I'll dermabrade my faults away, and suck off all the fat
Then soak it all in honey milk to keep my youth intact
So now I can wear what I've never worn
It doesn't matter if it's tailored or torn
I can't remember how to be forlorn
Now the world feels like I've just been born
And I'll remind the world
Of just who I am
"I am very special,
but I am just a man."
In my mind, I know true beauty
But now beauty looks like me
It is the vision that I've prayed to achieve
And mirrors cast reflections hard to believe
Around my neck, I feel reality constrict
Incompatible pills complicating this trick
Quickly to the mirror as my beauty fades away!
Quickly as it wins and life has its day ...
So, I could pretend that I like what I see
I could pretend to feel what I believe
I could pretend that beauty looks like me
but I create the world as I want it to be.
So, the tether is there
not to push or to pull
To remind that I am weak
when my heart is full
To weight consequences,
to wait and see
It is who I am
and who I will be.
