Through the Filter

[Intro] [Verse] Blue light glow across my face Carefully we hide the mistakes Find the angle, fake the smile Making up the newest file Every hiccup polished clean Every frame a better me Hide the wreckage out of view No body wants the ugly truth Watch the numbers climbing fast Temporary love that never lasts Everybody looking in But they don’t see what's beneath the skin [Pre-Chorus] And every time the screen lights up I feel less like enough Like if they saw the other side… They’d all leave me behind [Chorus] Love me through the filter Don’t look underneath Everybody wants the picture Nobody wants what’s me Smile for the camera Hide what’s incomplete Everybody loves the image Nobody loves the real me [Verse] Empty room, and the silence grows Minding the edges of the world I wrote Scrolling past a thousand lives Wondering where mine lands tonight Every face looks so alive While I'm trying to survive Trying hard to disappear While begging someone sees me here Mirror talks in sharper tones Pointing out what I should know Every flaw becomes a scar Every thought pulls me apart [Pre-Chorus] And every time I hit upload I sink further below Like all this validation hides Something broken deep inside... [Chorus] Love me through the filter Don’t look underneath Everybody wants the picture Nobody wants what’s me Smile for the camera Hide what’s incomplete Everybody loves the image Nobody loves the real me [Bridge] What happens when the screen goes dark? Who am I without the part? If all they know is what I show… Would anybody stay at all? (Build) I keep posing for the world While falling out of focus Trying not to let them know How close I am to hopeless [Final Chorus] Love me through the filter Don’t look underneath Everybody wants the picture Nobody wants what’s me Smile for the camera Hide what’s incomplete Everybody loves the image Nobody loves the real me