Constant Reverie - Faces You Once Had Lyrics

You took ages to show your face
Timeless and flawed all the same
Went home just to hide
And write about why you needed to hide
You cast yourself as the star
That never was heard from again
Everyone wanted to know about
Because they thought you had it all figured out
But all you ever felt was doubt
That's not something to write about
You were never one for bad behavior
Not the same kind as your saviors
Nobody really is anymore
Why couldn't you have been born
Fifty years in the past
Back when it was easy to have grace
You've memorized it in the movies
And don't want to let that go to waste
Maybe this time
The past and present rhyme
And you can peek through
And there within view
Are all of the elegant faces you once had
Until then you lie down
And absorb the black and white
The faded color that defines
The last remnant of taste
The sigh before the culture turned away
And left you born into
A sterilized alternative to the imperfect divine
Poison free and unpleasantly benign
You're so bored you might just do something about it
You type it out
Your vast imagination
You surprise yourself
By turning out pages
You wonder who
You could send these pages to?
Who'd find anything to adore
When nobody reads anymore?
Maybe this time
The past and present rhyme
And you can peek through
And there within view
Are all of the elegant faces you once had
All the elegant faces you once had
All the elegant faces you once had
All the elegant faces you once had