Bulletproof Smile

My inner world is dark beyond measure Crashing waves (Crashing waves) It’s hard to breathe when the water’s up to your neck. Odds acting against me Increase the pressure Endless days (Endless days) Copacetic on the outs but inside I’m a wreck. I scar my face with a smile So nobody questions me but This pain It is determined… It sits, it waits in silence… It latches on, distorting truth. Planted somewhere inside your head All the thoughts you wish were true Never further from the truth Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof. Something says I can change That it isn’t too late… Stitches take time to heal But there’s fresh skin underneath Shiny, pink scars (Shiny, pink scars) Harder than before (Harder than before) Determined, I fall I fall (I fall) But I rebound with the vitality of a rabbit Who doesn’t want to die Before he leaves a lesson So that someone else can try To find an answer for the medicine Curing heartache’s lie Planted somewhere inside your head All the thoughts you wish were true Never further from the truth Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof. And we bow our heads We walk, do we walk alone? I slipped, but caught a hand From a face I didn’t recognize Then caught a feeling so familiar I swore I’d seen those eyes before I wasn’t supposed to walk alone, If I don’t have you beside me At least I have your shadow And every stranger on my way here Left me feeling alone so, I shared with them a lie Coming from my face Through conventionality’s eye Every step will bring you closer Don’t give up before you try. Planted somewhere inside your head All the thoughts you wish were true Never further from the truth Yet you still think my smile is bulletproof.