Another dawn, another day Wake up and put that smile on your face The smile that says “I am fine” But when no one is looking you dry your eyes When did you last feel grounded? By masked people, you’re surrounded Lying to each other, day in, day out All trying to find what their life is about We’re living in plastic houses When did you last feel grounded? What’s it like to not care what others think? Losing hours, each time you blink We’re living in plastic houses Hours in bed and you still feel drowsy Apathy reigns, a normal day If feelings have colours then today I’m grey And I fall down to the ground Of my bedroom, hit the floor Every body part sore Same shit, new day This has happened before I’ve always been restless Buts its worse recently Home doesn’t feel like home And it’s hard to get to sleep Existential crisis at 3 am That’s gotta be a record Here we go again The cycle starts anew Mask on, smile wide Spend another day pretending that everything is fine But in your head you’re to trying to get the answer down To why under the mask your face is stuck in a frown Nothing’s quite as fulfilling as it was back in the day Stuck in a loop of longing for the old days again But you remember, you weren’t even that happy back then But it was probably the last time you connfided in a friend Your thoughts are just that; thoughts, all internalised Locked away in your head for you to overanalyse We’re living in plastic houses Take a look at your surroundings What can you see through the lingering cloud Your thoughts are eaten up by an emotional drought We’re living in plastic houses Fire in your brain and you can't douse it Go to sleep, hoping it'll stop the pain Repeat the cycle, every single day Right here, right now, on this day Let the artifice we wear fade away See our true selves, it's reflected in the song You judge a book by it's cover, that's where you're going wrong So lift up your masks I want to see your faces I want to you to show me what you hide when you fake it And in this moment, in this song We can all feel better when we stand as one Melt down those plastic houses Slam your fist, scream and shout it Brighten up your surroundings Burn the mask, I'm done hiding Wear your heart on your sleeve Unashamedly, I am what you see I'm messed up, but surprise surprise This is nothing new, so why should I lie?

I awake blinking in the light of a new day That cold winter sun is here to stay Hand over my eyes, I turn away Away from the restart of the new year's day How do you all do it? Strive to change so much Try and try with little to no luck It's hard to find that drive As the decor comes down, it’s hard to find the drive as the cold surrounds I'm supposed to start afresh, a clean slate they say But alas, nothing changes, I still feel the same At least I didn't die, I'm a little older But at the same time I feel a little colder on New Year's day New Year's day Sleep till the afternoon on new year's day A great start to the year, sleep your life away And then blame it on the drink or the party yesterday But I hardly drink, and I'm not the party type I don’t know enough people to be the party type Even better, start the new year with a lie At this point I’m not even gonna ask myself why I keep lying to myself, tell myself that I’m fine When I know that I’m not and I keep towing the line Of faking a smile to keep your mind and your questions at bay So I can run from my problems for just another day So I did the only thing, the only thing I knew It's the one and only thing that I knew how to do A paper pad, a pen, and these thoughts in my head Get them out on the page, they won't control me again I'll keep telling myself that, but I know the truth And the truth is that I just don't know what to do It's a song that I’ve written time and time again Never ending, never resting, can you help me friend? Locked in a battle with my fears, fallen from grace My mind’s a warzone, save me from this place This place in my head that is the worst of me And it’s the very last place that I would ever want to be But no matter what I try it won’t let me be free I’m looking out of the window and dark is all I can see I’m in a hall of mirrors and I can’t find the real me Warped perceptions in the dark is all I see Then I feel a hand grip mine and it begins to clear A solitary touch that destroys my fear A bolt of light from the dark, antidote to the pain A spark in my heart, sunlight through the rain I grip the hand tight and now it’s clear as day You don't define me and I know that sounds cliché But I was made to love and I was made to laugh Bet your bottom dollar that I'm gonna do just that So I won't give up yet, I have so much more to offer I’m not dead yet, put away the coffin My head, it can make me feel like this day after day But if it can create these feelings, it can send them away There'll be times where it lays into me and gives me hell But whether I like it or not, this is the hand I've been dealt I'm gonna play that hand to the best of my ability Because eventually I will win, and then I'll be free