You live in fear The animal in you just can't accept the cold veneer you perceive to be the truth Just when you think you're safe a new one comes along and settles in your place How do you rate? If you could hear the truth, you would, but defeat would be too great It's never worth the pain The luxury of life so wasted on the vain A million losing battles can't explain When you escape You'd love to find the place where a glance is just a glance and a face is just a face But up until you do, you'll find a fresh young friend who's got a friend or two And what a problem it creates for you You never see the old within the new I'd fall in love with anyone Tell me what needs to be done Because I'm dying over here under the sun Resigned too late To the damning way of fate You're not the fairest of the fair or the greatest of the great You scrutinize your face, and everything you see is everything you hate The mirror has this way of reading you the way you hope that people never do I'd fall in love with anyone Tell me what needs to be done, because I'm dying over here under the sun So is it really still that game? Wallow in your shame until you wish it were last year or any other day Silent in your cell Slowly being swallowed by your hell And is it me who can't address The trouble with success or how you fit into the world? But never in that dress It's hard to get your way when everything you do trumps everything you say So which one is it going to be today? The lying and the truth just feel the same I'd fall in love with anyone Tell me what needs to be done, because I'm dying over here under the sun