Portrait Lyrics

Trying to be everything for everybody else

I put all of my books neatly back up on the shelf

Constant knives at my back

Eagle watching eyes

Foreigner in my own head and I ask myself why

Does nobody see I'm tearing at the seams

Blinded by an image

A portrait they perceive

And it's cold in this land of mine

I'm always a step behind

With eyes that seem to say

I can take more than you throw at me

More than you throw at me

Looking in the mirror

Finding all my flaws

My skin should be much clearer

And my clothes should fit my thighs

Attempting to be perfect

There's disappointed eyes

Hidden behind curtains

So they don't see me cry

Does nobody see I'm tearing at the seams

Blinded by an image

A portrait they perceive

And it's cold in this land of mine

I'm always a step behind

With eyes that seem to say

I can take more than you throw at me

Does anybody see I'm tearing at the seams

Blinded by an image

A portrait they perceive

And it's cold in this land of mine

I'm always a step behind

With eyes that seem to say

I can take more than you throw at me

More than you throw at me

And it's cold in this land of mine

I'm always a step behind

With eyes that seem to say

I can take more than you throw at me

More than you throw at me