Crowdpleaser

(What are you looking for)

Life is but a performance
Painting on that perfect smile
A mind that rises to the occasion
And lifts you away
But you are in denial

Cause it's never really enough
Every time you hear them ask for more
And it is getting harder to wake up
Silently wishing that
You could close the door

So you are counting the days
The hours and the minutes that lead
You away from who you used to be
And without the answers
You try to move on instead

But the tears come at night when no one sees
How your mask crumbled down
How you fell to your knees

And the crowd is roaring
Carelessly scanting your name
They don't know that you burned long ago
They don't know that you never wished for the fame

Everyone is watching you fall
But no one opens their eyes long enough to see
What is truly happening in front of them
Drowning the pain
Hoping that'll set you free

Oh yes, the crowd is soaring
As you are lifting them up to the skies
For a moment you can pretend you feel better
As you are watching them through your bloodshed eyes

Tell me now, do you feel better
When you hold everything inside
Burning your skin until you die
Over and over again
And I see so much from me in you
I'm watching you outside your mind
How I sometimes wished that I was blind
Your downfall is choking me

With your hands before your face, you try to bury yourself away
And all of the grief, and all of the misery is slowly leading you astray

But the crowd is cheering
So you tell yourself that you don't mind
To pretend to be someone else for the moment
To make that smile your own just for the night

Oh, the crowd is applauding
Your performance was surely magical
But the fear is written deep inside your eyes
Will they still be there for you after your fall

(Is that what you are looking for)