Day after day, the thoughts never change

How I'd be better off under the ground than here anyway

“Just put on a face, pretend it’s okay.”

I never understood how people thought that way

Living every day without some mask to convey that there isn't something deep inside of them they want to escape

They would say “just pray the pain away,”

Yet what's lurking deep inside will not be swayed by grace

The mask I fabricate, the portrayal of an actor, a silent masquerade

You’ll find the truth in a decaying husk

A pestilence upon me, grinding bone into dust

I just feel like a fake

These thoughts, I will never escape

Deteriorate in my mental state

However far I get dragged down

Something inside me keeps me around

I'm stuck begging that the nightmare ends

But every moment spent awake is wasted in my head

Apathy took its toll on me, and continued to fuel this misery

The only outcomes that I can see

End with me collapsing or just bursting at the seams

I still persist

Persistence without purpose is meaningless

The descent is everlasting

Spiraling downward to my own demise

Caving in, wearing thin, stretched out to infinity

Until I cease to exist

I will either escape this void or die trying

Foresight aside, I'll continue to fight

My fate was never set in stone, and my burdens are mine

All mine, all alone

I will persist

I will persist

I will always persist

Against my wishes, I will put on the face

Put on the face

I will put on the face

Please try to listen

I am just a fake

Such a fake

I have always been this way

Always just a fake