Masquerade Party
from About Faces by Walrus Promenade
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lyrics
You've been spinning wheels for cash and prizes.
I been spinning my wheels too.
You blew me off when I was in a crisis,
and wonder why I seem so blue.
But you can’t know how I feel ‘bout these things; I’ll never tell.
So I’ll just continue my silent descent into hell.
Cause I never thought you had a clue.
I never really trusted you.
Now I see that younger me knew all too well!
You organize your life in rows and columns
and wonder what I add up to.
You think I don’t have any real problems,
because you think I’m just like you.
But that’s just a mask I wear
to keep your judging me at bay,
and escape from the fretting and dreading
what you're gonna say.
Cause you’d squash the turmoil in my head
Into a single number marked in red
If I told you that I’m really not OK.
So I’m cutting you out.
I don’t need the way you disapprove
and amplify my doubts.
I guess I’m the problem child:
the sullen black sheep girl.
But you got too much wool over your eyes
to see into my world.
And conversation with you's like being tangled up in conspiracies.
But I don’t want to play your games no more!
I just want to know you’re hearing me!
But you’re not.
I don’t know how I can get through to you now.
So I guess I’m through with you.
All I can do is try to get my truth out,
And hope that that can see me through...
I’ve never been so good at knowing what you really face.
I write my little songs, imagine myself in your place,
but there’s so much to learn that’s better left up on the shelf.
So after it’s your turn, I find a way to make it about myself.
I’ll probably never understand you
like I’d one day hoped and planned to.
But that plan has proved itself—
as plans so often do—
a younger person’s naive dream, unreachable in the extreme.
There’s never been a way to know another person’s whole entire truth.
But I have seen your true face.
I been spinning my wheels too.
You blew me off when I was in a crisis,
and wonder why I seem so blue.
But you can’t know how I feel ‘bout these things; I’ll never tell.
So I’ll just continue my silent descent into hell.
Cause I never thought you had a clue.
I never really trusted you.
Now I see that younger me knew all too well!
You organize your life in rows and columns
and wonder what I add up to.
You think I don’t have any real problems,
because you think I’m just like you.
But that’s just a mask I wear
to keep your judging me at bay,
and escape from the fretting and dreading
what you're gonna say.
Cause you’d squash the turmoil in my head
Into a single number marked in red
If I told you that I’m really not OK.
So I’m cutting you out.
I don’t need the way you disapprove
and amplify my doubts.
I guess I’m the problem child:
the sullen black sheep girl.
But you got too much wool over your eyes
to see into my world.
And conversation with you's like being tangled up in conspiracies.
But I don’t want to play your games no more!
I just want to know you’re hearing me!
But you’re not.
I don’t know how I can get through to you now.
So I guess I’m through with you.
All I can do is try to get my truth out,
And hope that that can see me through...
I’ve never been so good at knowing what you really face.
I write my little songs, imagine myself in your place,
but there’s so much to learn that’s better left up on the shelf.
So after it’s your turn, I find a way to make it about myself.
I’ll probably never understand you
like I’d one day hoped and planned to.
But that plan has proved itself—
as plans so often do—
a younger person’s naive dream, unreachable in the extreme.
There’s never been a way to know another person’s whole entire truth.
But I have seen your true face.
credits
from About Faces,
released April 4, 2019
Drums by Colin McCowan. Any tempo fuckups are mine, not his.
This song samples "Falling Mask" by Prurient.
Drums by Colin McCowan. Any tempo fuckups are mine, not his.
This song samples "Falling Mask" by Prurient.
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