Painted Smile

The dressing room

Packed with freaks and outcasts

Preparing to enter

And deceive, at their best

And in the mirror I see

Just make up and confusion

Before the spectacle begins

Come, take a seat and enjoy

We're about to begin

All the tickets are sold

But don't ever fear what you'll find

After all, just like you

We are tattered and torn

And in this twisted play

Forever bound to fail

I am the sadness disguised

Behind a painted smile

The seats are packed

Filled with ignorants and fools

Paying to watch

Just illusion and untruth

And in their eyes I can see

All hopes and dreams reflected

For this throat to swallow in

Come, take a seat and enjoy

We're about to begin

All the tickets are sold

But don't ever fear what you'll find

After all, just like you

We are tattered and torn

And when the lights fade

With no goodbyes said

And the curtains are closed

I stand in silence

Refrain from crying

For all the smiles that feel so wrong

And in this twisted play

Forever bound to fail

I am the sadness disguised

Behind a painted smile

And in this twisted play

Forever bound to fail

I am the sadness disguised

Behind a painted smile

They go on and on trying hard to feel

In every act a wound that heals

Like a dog chasing its tail

They keep running round and round

And we are all clowns

And I keep on acting trying not to feel

In every task a wound that bleeds

Dressed in color and in smiles

I keep running round and round

But I'm just a clown