Part: 1 Vain Beauty

This world is too vain
I’m going insane,
I want to be beautiful
I want to be pretty
This is world is too vain
I’m going insane
I see you all staring
I see you all glaring
If I wasn’t so pretty
Would you all be so friendly?
This world is too vain
I’m going insane


This world is too vain
Do you even care for my name?
Were living in material
Were living in plastic
I wouldn’t be so fantastic
If I weren’t shiny an plastic
This world is too vain
I’m going insane


I need to keep being beautiful
I need perfectionist eyes
You have painted me so lovely
With your paint brush and tools
But what about them
Who do not have these looks?
The world will throw stones
And cast them to the curb
This world is too vain
This world is too plain
To only see one side
To only see pretty lives
You judge like a villain
You don’t care for the real human
It’s the inside that’s losing
I’m going insane
This world is too vain

Part 2 -> Vain beauty

This world is too vain
So I want to be beautiful
The inside never counts
It is only a figment of imagination
What we hope people to judge
But you are looking at my face
Sizing me up
I see your eyes
That nasty brow
That gazed stare
There’s a ring of jealousy
On your lips,
There’s beauty on me
So you hate
But adore
If I was ugly
You would show me the door
But beauty is everything
To you
To I
So I’d rather be the swan
Than the ugly duckling
Please know my heart is there
But you don’t see it
What you see is me
But what you see can grow old
It can shrivel
It can disappear
But beauties everything
To you
To I
The world is too vain
So I want to be beautiful
I want to be loved

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I was everything
You wanted
I was everything
You wanted not
Our eyes met
Only for a second
Before they were gone
Our love was invisible
That’s how fast it happened
You held me like forever
And I believed it to be
I thought it so
I’ve wished you here
But you have never shown
Only when you feel so cold;
We have drifted
Into strangers
That barely even know
Who you are
Who I was
If we ever really were
I’m curious
Of your mind
And if you ever had a heart
You are a ghost
That wonders
Late at night
Into my mind
Into my sight
I try,
I try,
To shut it away
To close all the drapes,
But there is so much here,
Between us,
Within the deepest dark
I feel the space
I feel the presence
And it all grows distant
Day by day
It dwindles
Blowing in the wind;
If I ever love another
The way I did you
I could only wish
He could only wish
That it would be that true