Pretend to Be Unique

[paxia]

Guarded well
Inside your shell
Never tell
What you’d never sell
Inside your hell
Inside your cell
Inside your shell
Hidden well

Put on a face
With feigned grace
Covered in lace
To hide the disgrace
The things you taste
The things you waste
New pasture in which to graze
This is only a phase
Herded like a sheep
To pools so deep
Pretend to weep
As here for a while you sleep
As the water seeps
You wade in knee deep
But your shell still keeps
In each new field you reap

Guarded well
Inside your shell
Never tell
What you’d never sell
Inside your hell
Inside your cell
Inside your shell
Hidden well

The image you desire
The artificial fire
Deep down you hide the liar
With a misdirected ire
Of these games you soon tire
You want the rose, but not the briar
And with a need so dire
Throw another milestone upon the pyre
Herded away
The very next day
To another bay
For a while you stay
But again led astray
To a new sun’s rays
And you think it’s okay
To use people this way

Guarded well
Inside your shell
Never tell
What you’d never sell
Inside your hell
Inside your cell
Inside your shell
Hidden well

Pretend to be majestic
Pretend to be unique
Pretend you are strong
But your mind is weak
Pretend to bend
Pretend to the end
Pretend, pretend,
Pretend, pretend

Guarded well
Inside your shell
Never tell
What you’d never sell
Inside your hell
Inside your cell
Inside your shell
Hidden well.