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lirik lagu nobuddyisperfect - the mask falls

[verse 1]
it’s the quarterly review, the big one
the one that they all watch
i’m suited up, i’ve got my notes
i’ve taken just a little scotch
of gorilla glue to smooth the edge
to make the code inside my brain
compile correctly, stop the dread
and keep me looking sane
i’ve practiced this a hundred times
my slideshow’s full of charts and graphs
i’ve memorized the corporate rhymes
and even practiced a few laughs
this is my moment, my big chance
to prove that i belong in here
to k!ll the whispers and the glance
that says i’ll disappear
[pre~chorus]
i walk to the front
the room goes quiet
a firing squad of cheap~suit clones
i cl!ck the first slide
my pulse is a riot
i feel it in my rattling bones
i open my mouth to speak the first line…
and a static fills my head
the words i practiced, so clear and fine…
are gone. they’re utterly, totally dead
[chorus]
and the mask falls
in the pale projector light!
my mind’s a browser
that has frozen in plain sight!
i’m speaking jargon
but the syntax is all wrong!
the presentation that
i’ve practiced for so long
is turning into wreckage
sentence by short sentence!
this isn’t penance
this is my public execution!
and i can’t breathe
i can’t think
i can’t escape the fall!
in front of them all…
i’m losing it all
[verse 2]
my boss is shaking his head slow
the intern’s trying not to stare
and god, i know, i know, i know
i’m grabbing at the empty air!
the words are coming out in bursts
a stuttering dial~up modem trying
to connect but it’s the worst
it’s like a part of me is dying
right here beneath the buzzing glare
i’m talking loops when i mean arrays
a system crash, a fatal prayer
my entire world is in a haze!
i’m sweating through my shirt and tie
i see the pity in their eyes
the final, bitter, sweet goodbye
to this pathetic, thin disguise!
i just stop talking. silence falls
it’s louder than a godd~mn bomb
i walk back through the silent halls
my world reduced to dot~com~bomb
[bridge]
i didn’t even pack my desk
i just walked out the building
walked for hours
didn’t know where i was going
the gorilla glue hadn’t just failed to help
it had been the anchor that dragged me under
it turned the fog into a wall
it took my anxiety and gave it a microphone
the mask didn’t just fall
i had ripped it off myself and shown everyone the monster
there was no one to blame
no one at all
[outro]
the mask is gone…
and i am naked in the street
a monument
to my own self~defeat
the mask is gone…
there’s nothing left to hide behind
and for the first time…
i have to fix my mind
not patch it. not drug it
fix it

- lirik lagu nobuddyisperfect

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