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Ugly Beautiful People

from Hope? by DRTYUNCL

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All the ugly, beautiful people I see
Make it easy to be a beautifully ugly being
Somewhere between serene and dope fiend
Convinced that my ugly expression hides beautiful things
I've got shoe strings the color of my soul
Each time I lace 'em the more white core's exposed
Pose for me beautiful thing
Before your beauty fades and you look like me
Tweak that image and lose your skin
While the blind man laughs at your feeble attempts to win
Over an audience, but that fountain of youth
Will flush right through that thin skin coverin' you
Who are you? Do you even know?
Did that makeup cover up your cerebral?
Did you become your own sequel?
Or did you just glitter up the script of the original?

All the ugly, beautiful people I see
Make it easy to be a beautifully ugly being
Must burn your tan from the mirror to see
Your most noticeable accessory is the puppet strings
All the ugly, beautiful folks
Awoke sleeping beauty to a mirror-full of smoke
And spoke from the throat but it came from their eyes
When they choked on the hope of their ugliest lies

Most the shallow have the widest of eyes
As if they absorbed the third one from inside
They take pride in applause on the stage
But each day they see more of the audience walk away
I guess its a cruel game we play
Determine winners on criterion of constant change
Must be a strange day when you hear the mirror say
That even the fairest of all wrinkles away
I see you use your tongue for good taste
Just another reason all your words go to waste
I see that you're usin' your mind for alabis
But you're faker than the ways you claim to spend time
I see you use your discussion for nothin' but combustion
And then mistake the heat for some kind of seduction
I see you're blind to the things I see
'Cus I've seen your eyes become your penitentiary

All the ugly, beautiful people I see
Make it easy to be a beautifully ugly being
Must burn your tan from the mirror to see
Your most noticeable accessory is the puppet strings
All the ugly, beautiful folks
Awoke sleeping beauty to a mirror-full of smoke
And spoke from the throat but it came from their eyes
When they choked on the hope of their ugliest lies

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from Hope?, released November 27, 2012

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