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TO LIVE IN DENIAL
TO LIVE IN DENIAL
(T. Beechey)
To live in denial,all the while really knowing
What is going on within you will begin to magnify
The lie that you are living --- have you given thought
To maybe not continue smiling while you're somehow getting by?
To live in denial,all the while understanding
You'll be branded everafter with laughter and disdain
When your reign begins to crumble --- have you come to the conclusion
This delusion doesn't equal the critique that will remain?
When you count up all the numbers
Yes,we're humbled by your glory
But your story is a fable
You're unable to complete
And when you meet your ending
There won't be a friend to lean on
You'll careen across and tumble
Through your jumble of deceit
To live in denial,all the while realizing
The disguises you're wearing are there by just a thread
Your head must be cluttered with the mutters of your conscience
Since it knows all of your secrets and won't let you be misled
To live in denial,all the while with the knowledge
That all that you've deceived,who've believed in your dreams
When your seams start exposing,those who shared in your vision
By decision shall desert you --- is it really worth the gleam?
When you add up all the figures
Yes,you're bigger than you have been
And you're grinning more than ever
But your clever cheap facade
Is a fraud and you know it
You are only just pretending
And your ending,when it happens
Will entrap you 'neath the sod
To live in denial,all the while anticipating
Your fate at the mercy of the curses and the jeers
Of your peers and your colleagues,once intrigued by your presence
Now resonating fury toward your wearing of veneers
To live in denial,all the while contemplating
What awaits you when what's hidden and forbidden is revealed
How you'll feel as the side you are hiding from the masses
Surpasses what's accepted --- your deception's now an open field
When you total all the cost
Yes,you've lost your very soul
And the toll it's taken on you
Has now gone beyond repair
And there's no one to depend on
For your ending's come so quickly
You can just pick up the pieces
While the ceaseless laughter blares
