Shadows Edge - Mask (Dorian Grey) lyrics

Yeah. Yo, Coal Cash It's like we're always wearing masks man, all of us We wear masks, I put on a mask for the mask I'm gonna meet Am I ever me ? are we ever We? It's like yo we hiding I don't wanna hide anymore, you know what I'm sayin Shadows Edge It's been awhile since I've showed you what's beneath the mask Bask in deep ravines crowning my dreams with a wreath of ash Release the wrath on a path of self-inflicted scorn Torn through my visage and looked dismissive on his twisted form Storms a**isted flooded potential from torrential rains But the stains on my temple held monumental to its essential pain A mental strain from migraines that caress my thoughts Wrought a constant pounding that's dumbfounding in its hounding stalk My corpse drowning in an astounding sense self denial and while I felt it wrong I'm no more strong than a helpless child A selfish smile I'll beguile until it feels sincere, then sneer at your cries as your welling eyes begin to tear The fear applies until it drives me to the brink of break If I make these lies true, then what is true, that I think is fake I link this fate to shape realities we misconstrue Then viewed from neutrality on finalities we disapprove And this alludes back to the fallacy of a safety net Regretting swan dives as we collide with a hasty d**h A waste of breath if I said I don't enjoy the filth Was built to be destroyed, wish I was void but can't avoid the guilt It wilts my soul cause I don't know if I'll have a reprieve I grieve in this haunting, a longing that has gathered my greed Conceiving realities, a lie that we rather believe than a truth that had daunted from what we never wanted to see (Hook) What's revealed when the mask's away We're living life in a masquerade (Take it off, take it off) Wanna heal, wanna show the way We are more than roles we play Behind the visage that your mind defines, steppin out from what you hide behind (Come out, come out) Stand out, shine your beauty far Be proud of who you truly are (x2) Sardonic sabotage Facade, a chronic camouflage At odds with myself, I stayed in stealth to dodge the camera pod Glamours mirage that had lodged by the snares of hell Fell to self-despair it's hard to care when you wear it well A smell in the air to bear the intent of nightmare's descent Venting, my temples flare Locked to my lair tryna bear the rent I swear lament won't make a dent in this facetious front And once it sinks its teeth in it never releases where it leaches from It keeps us numb from this egregious egress that bleeds us dry As demons cry to Jesus but would deceive us to believe their lies I plead to the skies, my eyes are basin for my tasting tears Hear my gears grind, robbing more time out of my wasted years Embracing fears, chasing the cheers of peers to praise my work To search through the hurt and rage, hope for a wage where I'm payed my worth Afraid to merchandise my entice pricing art I make I wait for employment, how much disappointment my heart can take My fate's deployment had a buoyant state of above encumbrance Redundant cycles get rougher, guess I'm a s**er for the stuffer's abundance I stuck to the dungeon of my repugnance a coven of wrath to cage In an age of trespa**, society basks in this masquerade The mask was made to give us aid in the lies we pretend Then again I love this parade as the charades help me hide who I am Providing my pen doesn't intend to make it all in vain Disdain from what helps me remaining stealthy behind these walls of shame (Hook)