The Face We Wear

The Face We Wear [Verse 1] He’s the first one there at the coffee shop Laughing like he owns the place Knows everybody’s name by heart And wears that easy smile on his face Nobody sees him sitting in his truck When the morning shift is done Staring through the windshield At everything he’s running from [Verse 2] She walks in dressed like Sunday morning Hair just right and lipstick red She says she’s doing fine when people ask Though she barely slept in bed She’s learned to keep the answers simple She’s learned what not to say Some things get easier to carry When you hide them every day [Chorus] We all wear a face When we walk through the door We give a little of ourselves But we keep a little more You can know somebody’s laughter You can know the things they say But you may never know the person Who comes out when they’re alone at the end of the day [Verse 3] There’s a man who never talks about The war inside his head He’s the one they call when trouble comes The one who never bends But sometimes strength is just a habit And courage is a disguise And the hardest tears to cry Are the ones you keep behind your eyes [Chorus] We all wear a face When we walk through the door We give a little of ourselves But we keep a little more You can know somebody’s history You can know their favorite song But you may never know the battles That they’ve been fighting all along [Bridge] Maybe the richest man in town Sleeps lonely in his bed Maybe the woman everybody envies Wishes she was somebody else instead Maybe the one who makes you laugh Has forgotten how to smile Maybe everybody’s carrying Something they’ve been hiding for a while [Verse 4] So the next time that you meet somebody Don’t be too quick to say you know There’s a thousand miles of road Behind the face that people show There are dreams that never happened There are scars that never show And a whole lifetime of a person That you may never know [Final Chorus] We all wear a face When we walk through the door We give a little of ourselves But we keep a little more And maybe love is not pretending That you know somebody through and through Maybe love is saying, “I don’t know everything about you But I want to.” [Outro] So take your time with every stranger Take your time with every friend There’s a story underneath the story There’s a beginning underneath the end And somewhere underneath the face We’re all just hoping someone sees The person we were underneath it Before we learned who we should be