Under My Skin

I walk like one, I talk like one

Therefore I am

A pretty smile, a beguiling gesture

A threat to no man

Laugh when you laugh

Smile if you say

I'll dance, I'll jump, I'll leap, I’ll play

Anything 

If it pleases you

And you'll ask, I know you’ll ask

You always do 

I'm an actor and the world is my stage 

I'm an actor and a friend is the role I play

I think like you, I look like you, I act like you

Or whatever I’d think you like anyway

I'm good at it too, but you’d never say

I notice but it doesn’t matter

I’m too busy preparing for my next performance anyway

How would you like this

Or what would she say

If I cry, if I bleed

The show must go on

I’ve forgotten it all

I’ve been playing for too long

My hopes, my dreams

What's ticking inside the time bomb

Do I like that, my hair twisted up

Or how on Thursdays we have to always wear the same thing 

Did I ever mention how I hate children and God forsaken camp counseling

And I hate rom-coms, I think

Almost as much as I hate boy talk 

Or how when it's my turn to speak, you brush me off like 

the leftover scraps you wash down a sink

But at least I remember the important things:

You like to be heard even if you don’t listen

You like the attention, if its a boy that’s giving

You like me to be your friend, even though you’ve never been mine 

You like me when it's convenient, almost as much as you like to win  

The only thing that doesn't matter 

To you or to anyone else is  

What's under my skin