[Verse 1]

Dictate what you think is pivotal

Mandate just for the sake of ego

Controlling your decision making

The world we're missing is still ours for the taking

[Verse 2]

Accelerate into isolation

Gravitate to comfort, presentation

Anxiety laden, restless confusion

No courage, no confidence, absent delusion

[Pre-Chorus]

Most of us would be lying

Holding fast to denying

If we said we're all feeling swell and content

All of us would be slipping

Backpedaling, gripping

So tight to our fragile confidence

[Chorus]

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

[Verse 3]

Activate with hope and integrity

Honesty: the only true currency

Devastate the guilt, not the guilty

And I promise a better night's sleep

[Pre-Chorus]

Most of us would be lying

Holding fast to denying

If we said we're all feeling swell and content

All of us would be slipping

Backpedaling, gripping

So tight to our fragile confidence

[Chorus]

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

We're trying

Just to convince the world we're

Something that we can't be

We are not afraid of being alone

Of being caught by ourselves

With only our own thoughts

[Outro]

All of us would be slipping

Backpedaling, gripping

So tight to our fragile confidence