Perfect by nature
Icons of
self-indulgence.
Just what we all
need
More lies about a
world that
Never was and never
will be
Have you no shame
don't you see me
You know you've
got everybody fooled.
You fed the lies. I could see the truth from the start; you couldn't fool me. I think I was far enough away from your sanity to escape the glamour of your light, close enough to your remote heart. To me you were never perfect, all you were was a scared little girl, and I loved you when you showed me your vulnerable soul.
What they see and love is not real. That perfect shining angel that never was is what you want to be. No one sees my reality, but I have never asked for adoration. I have never held myself up as a pretence. I have made no excuses for who I am.
Everybody believes the façade. How can you manipulate their emotions? You have no shame, do you?
Look here she comes now
Bow down and stare
in wonder
Oh how we love you
No flaws when you're
pretending
But now I know she
Never was and never
will be
You don't know how
you've betrayed me
And somehow you've
got everybody fooled.
They can't see beyond the surface, they adore the mask that you present to them. They worship their untrue saint. Your guise of holiness covers those small imperfections that would make you human in their eyes.
The Fallen Angel, the perfect sinner, is what I am. I could pretend to be other than I am, to hide the scars of imperfection, the flaws that mark me. You have betrayed my trust in your intrinsic truth. That too was a lie. You even had me blinded to it all.
One slip and I saw through the barriers. I know that you are their shining light, but I know your angelic deception is just that. Deceit.
Without the mask
Where will you hide?
Can't find
yourself
Lost in your lie.
I know the truth now
I know who you are
And I don't love
you anymore.
Your mask is failing you now. What will you do? All you know is what you always pretended to be. So what will you do, stripped of that security, that intangible identity, your only friend. Your world of invisible embraces and ghostly whispers of friendship was your truth, and I think you believed it. I don't know what you will do, lost in the wilderness, what we see as the real world.
I suspected that you were an angel of tainted light, now I know this. I know that you are both more and less then what you pretend you are. But I cannot forgive the deceit. I cannot love a lie, and I do not know you. I cannot love that which I do not know.
It never was and never will beYou're not real and you can't save me
Somehow now you're everybody's fool.
The love that I had for you was based on quicksilver, a foundation of dreams and formless promises. It was never really real. I wish I could love you still, but you have destroyed my trust.
I wished for an angel to save me from the madness, and now I know that I never found one. There is no one to rescue me from the grasping tendrils of insanity. Though you are next to me, you aren't there.
They are all beginning to see you. They are beginning to see through you. You are turning into a ghost of fractured illusions and bittersweet tears. I miss you. I miss my tainted angel, however false you were.
