Pretty Little Lies

You polished every sentence clean Left no evidence in its wake Sold the room a softer truth While the real one suffocated I watched your mouth spin stories Out of spite and bad intent Every smile had a price tag Every kindness came with rent Say it sweet Make it nice Dress it up Say it twice Fake a smile for the image Keep the mask on tight Pretty little lies With their pretty little teeth They don’t shout They whisper underneath Pretty little lies Tucked behind your eyes I believed your charm Until it started fading Pretty little lies What a foolish thing to waste All that trust in such a perfect face You never needed thunder You just tilted every room Made the honest sound unstable Made the guilty seem excused I kept checking my own shadow Like the traitor lived in me But the mirror finally answered You were what it tried to see Say it sweet Make it nice Dress it up Say it twice Fake a smile for the image Keep the mask on tight Pretty little lies With their pretty little teeth They don’t shout They whisper underneath Pretty little lies Tucked behind your eyes I believed your charm Until it started fading Pretty little lies What a foolish thing to waste All that trust in such a perfect face I won’t beg the truth to save me I won’t kneel to what you broke Every promise has an echo Every trick runs out of use You can have the last confession You can have the final word Truth doesn’t get any louder Once it’s finally heard Pretty little lies With their pretty little teeth They don’t shout They whisper underneath Pretty little lies Tucked behind your eyes I believed your charm Until it started fading Pretty little lies What a foolish thing to waste All that trust in such a perfect face Say it sweet Make it nice Pretty little lies With their pretty little teeth