Strength And Pride (But All Lies) It seems these days that we’re not ourselves Each one of us privately going through hell Every day putting on the same façade Just trying our best not to get caught off guard And be exposed to the outside world who we really are Normal people dealing with the same emotional scars That we’d try and explain that we never had But in actual truth we’ve probably got it just as bad And we make out that nothing’s ever wrong We just fake our way as we go along Cos we’ve got too much pride for the need of help All of us lone soldiers lying when we say we’ll cope But at they end of the day no matter what we say You’ll always know who we really are People like me hoping every day That there’s a chance that it’ll be the last… Caught inside something much too real Our lives consumed by what we feel We take each day with the sense of strength and pride Secretly hoping we’ll never wake up if we close our eyes We are the ones that you thought you knew We are the popularity contest that no one takes Our lives are nothing more than mistakes All of us asking why do we see through these eyes But cover up our emotions with a less caring disguise We’ll say; “fuck school, its all just worthless shit” But we’ll always get stressed out over the thought of failing it We’ll wanna live a life of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll But in reality we want it all seemingly under control And here we are from day to day just faking our way People so blind to identify the lies we say Sometimes it’s astonishing how gullible people are But I know they too deal with the exact same scars But no matter how far the extent of lies of who we are You’ve always managed to call my bluff It’s like I’m transparent to you cos you see the scars And you’ve always known that my best just isn’t ever enough Caught inside something much too real Our lives consumed by what we feel We take each day with the sense of strength and pride Secretly hoping we’ll never wake up if we close our eyes We are the ones that you thought you knew The truth is that nothing will change People will go their whole lives telling lies And the person you know is probably someone else Someone like us living our own private hell You think you know us? You think you’ve got us figured out? You know nothing… You know nothing about us! Caught inside something much too real Our lives consumed by what we feel We take each day with the sense of strength and pride Secretly hoping we’ll never wake up if we close our eyes Caught inside something much too real Our lives consumed by what we feel We take each day with the sense of strength and pride Secretly hoping we’ll never wake up if we close our eyes We are the ones that you thought you knew We are the ones that you thought you knew No one will ever be who you think we are We are the ones that we thought we knew