Lyrics
Transfixed upon the imperfections
Intensely focused on flaws and shortcomings
Every rough edge of the presentation
Aware of and analyzing every rough aspect of the situation
I can pick apart all of my reasons
Evaluating and breaking down personal justifications
But still I can not rise above them
Struggling to overcome personal imperfections
Have you always been so perfect?
Questioning someone's perpetual perfection
Always known how to play the game?
Asking if the person has always been adept at playing life's challenges
It’s starting to look that way
Expressing skepticism about the apparent perfection
Your construct leaves no human trace
Noticing a lack of genuine human qualities in someone's demeanor
And in the ditch of your path I lay
Feeling abandoned or defeated in the wake of their success
Nothing is coming together
Experiencing a lack of cohesion and unity
Just fragmenting over and over
Observing continuous fragmentation instead of progress
I need to stop putting my pen to paper
Considering stopping self-expression to avoid despair
Lest I need one more hopeless reminder
Acknowledging the risk of reinforcing hopelessness
One more portrait of a person
Creating another depiction of personal failure
Who has failed to grow in any direction
Describing a person who has stagnated and not grown
Resenting my petty resentments
Resenting trivial grievances with self
Never truly alive in the moment
Feeling disconnected from the present moment
My eyes keep glaring inward
Continuously reflecting inwardly
If only looks could kill my thoughts
Wishing appearances could impact thoughts
So preoccupied with my escape
Excessively focused on escaping current circumstances
That I have become always away
Being constantly absent or distant mentally
But all I’m packing are my doubts
Carrying doubts without tangible solutions
And a broken heart I can’t take out
Holding onto a broken heart that cannot be fixed
It’s so easy to fake the happiness now
Noticing the ease of pretending to be happy
To watch each other wield those smiles
Observing people masking their true feelings with smiles
Throwing people off the scent
Deceptively diverting attention from struggles
Of years of futility and discontent
Acknowledging years of frustration and dissatisfaction
There’s so much disparity
Highlighting significant differences
Between the perfect image and the empty reality
Pointing out the contrast between appearance and reality
Ask what does it matter
Raising a question about the significance of it all
Not what does it mean
Emphasizing the importance of actions over meanings
When you can have all the answers
Noting the availability of answers that may not help
But they will push you deeper in
Warning that answers may lead to deeper struggles
Circles
Describing repetitive and purposeless cycles
Endless, pointless circles
Highlighting the endless nature of these cycles
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