Love me or Leave me

Pretense

[Intro]

They smile and they laugh and they keep up the craze
The voices in their heads are going insane
They have to be brave
They have to keep faith
The smiles never fade
This rotten parade

For better or worse now their vows are just words
It boils their blood as they claw through the dirt
Life's toils have begun
It only gets worse
Expressionless stares
This pain is a first

[Chorus]

I've waited too long for someone to get me
The music is where I am free so just let me
The doors have been closed and my smiles have been rehearsed
But now it's my chorus so turn up the reverb

[Verse 1] (rap)

Looking round I see watered down faces
Different phases, nothing but traces
Solidify this image in my mind
Is it nearly time, do we have the chance to rewind?
You either love me or you love me not
There only two choices, why is it hard to connect this
I'm trying to speak out the truth here,
Ain't here to amuse, yeah I got this point clear
Give me a piece of your heart, or I'll break you apart
Show me emotion, I need a solution to this corrosion
Slowly we're dying away now,
On my knees to pray now, goin astray now
Twenty more seconds and my inhibition
Is now an explosion, I got this petition
We're moving to fast, we need to unwind
We're not gonna last, and yet we still grind
We're tellin each other that livin is winning
We ain't got a vision we're doomed to perdition
We sow our own sickness and then when we reap it
We say "Hell no!" I didn't sign up for this
Why? Why are we so damn aloof?
Yeah! We're falling apart on the news
Damn! We've gone and broken the truce
The ferals are on the loose

[Chorus]

I've waited too long for someone to get me
The music is where I am free so just let me
The doors have been closed and my smiles have been rehearsed
But now it's my chorus so turn up the reverb
.

[Verse 2]

Highly probable that I will break through
Yea, they salute you, they ain't in my crew
Petrifying my emotions I can say
I've already played, I'll make sure that I'm winnin this game
I got this little taste for saying what I like
I'm not narrow minded, why are these people so blinded
I'm finding it hard to convey that
You act like life's perfect. Your bank account proves that
But every day that you start, you're falling apart
But you say you're at peace, tryna convince us you're at ease.
Your optimistic thoughts are your downfall
Paralysing the snowfall, trapping the snowstorm
You see the snitch, you aint trying to catch it,
And choose to ignore it, cuz loss don't permit
"Save us we're lost, but not out of sight
You give us the toss but we find the light"
You were too busy actin like you were ecstatic,
But right now to those who cared you're just pathetic.
Don't talk of the Damaged or dirty, just cuz it aint pretty
It makes you puke, too much negativity
Why! You make the earth seem so aloof.
Yeah! You make us crash on the news
Damn! I blame you for breaking this truce
Please face your issues or lose.

[Chorus]

I've waited too long for someone to get me
The music is where I am free so just let me
The doors have been closed and my smiles have been rehearsed
But now it's my chorus so turn up the reverb

[Outro]

Silence the ringing that's growing in my head
My feelings have broken the dam now I see red
Don't try to play with my heart I'm a savage
I open your wounds then I feed on your carnage
I open your wounds then I feed on your carnage