Paid In Exposure

Stand straight, keep it right on track

Gotta step on the outcast, your deck is stacked

Talk soft right behind their backs

Before you know it, you’ll be one of them

Keep kind words up out your mouth

Throw their name in the mud

Now you’re heading south

Don’t let them see your face

A facade’s what you need for the fame

So blame the game

All of these petty things

Everything you want it seems

Trusting far as you can throw her

Give a bit, take a lot

Give it everything you got it

Worth every bit of exposure

All curtains drawn

A stage of smog is setting up the scene

Your final call won’t blackout all the fake I see

I never meant to fit this mold

I’m simply doing what I’m told

Painted up and watered down

To a shell that’s hollowed out

Before I knew I became one of them

Woah-oh, one of them

Pull every string attached

Verify all the tropes

Ain’t no turning back

From your point of no return

Make a habit to cross every bridge

That you burned

All of these petty things

Lambo’s and your shiny rings

Go as far as you can throw it

Give a bit, take a lot

Fill your cup it’s not enough

Heart’s on E, and we both know it

All curtains drawn

A stage of smog is setting up the scene

(We're setting up the scene)

Your final call won’t blackout all the fake I see

I never meant to fit this mold

I’m simply doing what I’m told

Painted up and watered down

To a shell that’s hollowed out

Before I knew I became one of them

Woah-oh, one of them

You swear your name holds so much weight and all demand

So what’s it like to live life as your own biggest fan?

(Must be nice)

But on and on, it comes around

(Yeah)

Congrats on your new love you found

(Ha, ha, ha)

In love with every single sound

And word that’s coming out your mouth

I never meant to fit this mold

I’m simply doing what I’m told

Painted up and watered down

To a shell that’s hollowed out

Before I knew I became one of them

One of them