Beauty Is a Lie

Lenses, out of focus Edits, everyone Pretending, we’re not broken but the Truth is, we’re all mixing Pigments, filtering our fiction To look like golden [Pre-Chorus 1] Living by the brushstroke Of the rules that we can’t let go Keeping up appearances For people that we don’t know [Chorus] Smiling for the cameras Flash floods on the inside We all take pretty pictures But beauty is a lie Hide behind the canvas Fear burns like a forest fire We all paint pretty pictures But beauty is a lie [Verse 2] We can’t be our own Curators, we’re all imitators Who can’t think for themselves [Pre-Chorus 2] Following the leaders That will lead us to the front line Only see the world Framed by someone else’s eyes [Chorus] Smiling for the cameras Flash floods on the inside We all take pretty pictures But beauty is a lie Hide behind the canvas Fear burns like a forest fire We all paint pretty pictures But beauty is a lie [Chorus] Smiling for the cameras Flash floods on the inside We all take pretty pictures But beauty is a lie Hide behind the canvas Fear burns like a forest fire We all paint pretty pictures But beauty is a lie