Forced Fiction (feat. Matthew Langbecker)
These Worlds collide
I'm awoken from mine
Fantasies intertwine
And fade like our time
Plucking at the heart twine
Of my soul and my mind
Are all of my thoughts & scenes
I wanna leave behind
But behind the seen you see a scene
Of things you'd think I'd never dream or never think
So I wear this mask and take another drink
Of complacency I'm hiding my transparency
So you don't see me
So I don't need to be
Anything but a mystery
But with sincerity
I beg you to look beneath
And find me in these fantasies
Find who I'm meant to be
I'm feeling trapped to sleep and
Can't escape reality
That all my fantasies are killing me
Through reality it's just fantasy
The lies we try to hide are tearing it down
Open your eyes take off your mask
And realize we're all the same
We know that we need you
We know we need the truth
So here we are, so here we are
Writing my own plot line
Gave me my own high
My penicillin every night
But the pen hits ceiling tonight
Forget all that I write
It don't lead to a paradise
Might as well roll a pair of dice
To try & get lucky tonight
But the pens dry
And cursed in a cursive of lies
Crashing down this world of mine
Losing my state of mind
And my pasts storming the sky
And now people passing by
Ask me to join tonight & say
Hey Forget what You see in the sky
No, I don't see any lies
Fantasies? This is life
Our escape every night
No that ain't tears in our eyes
Don't see bruises on her thighs
Or the cuts he tries to hide
Just forget it all right?
Nah not aight
Someone's opening my eyes
Got me questioning the price like
Is running from my pain worth this fake high
Is numbing off my heart leading me to die?
I can't keep running from life to lies
But to the story I tried to deny, mine
Through reality it's just fantasy
The lies we try to hide are tearing it down
Open your eyes take off your mask
And realize we're all the same
We know that we need you
We know we need the truth
So here we are, so here we are
They just want me to sit by & watch the show
To join the masquerade and to just let go
To keep quiet about the problems so
People can just dance and the worry won't
But see I got a lot of problems of my own
And I know I'm not the only one feeling so
So I gotta be real and give em that hope
And tell these stories that need to be told
Cause I see these kids dying everyday to be known
The cries of mama's with a child not coming home
Feeling the bruises of the abused fighting all alone
Those in the streets with fading dreams looking for hope
The girl watching porn but she won't let anybody know
The couple with a marriage barely hanging on by a rope
The college kid who lost their life to an overdose
The rich & famous who still feel rejected & broke
These are the stories that need to be told
To have a voice and let em hear somebody knows
Stepping out of the fiction we try to write and hold
To step into this real life we should've been facing all along