Ballroom

Welcome to the fiction

We hide here every evening

With plenty of exuberance

And voices for the voiceless

But if I look out on the floor

Is there room for anymore?

I'm a buzzkill and a bore

I'm not the person this is for

But I'm tired of civil war

My spirit is screaming out for more

It's all just too much to ignore

That I could be something more

(We could be something more)

The sprawl of the ballroom with the lights down low

I know you see my eyes aglow

My hand is extended to offer you a dance

By chance, would you welcome my romance?

And we both know, it's fantasy

(But the feeling is real, it's real for you and me)

The sprawl of the ballroom

(With the lights down low)

I'm a grease spill and a bad time

So I look around me, see the fault lines

Every soul here has a problem

But when they're together, they are flawless

But there's no pretending nothing's wrong

They'll figure it out that I'm a fraud

But I still try to play along

'Cause I just want to belong

(Do I belong?)

The sprawl of the ballroom with the lights down low

I know you see my eyes aglow

My hand is extended to offer you a dance

Advance, my darling take a chance

And we're no kings, you and I

(But being together, we're royalty tonight)

The sprawl of the ballroom

(Hold me close)

I'm so tired of the fiction

(Who are we)

I get so caught up in the friction

(You and me)

But it's okay to let it go

(We can be so free)

And find a comfort in the show

(A thing nobody knows)

Are you a martyr well-deserved

Or just afraid of what doesn't hurt?

My darling, I know it all too well

(But we're all pretending to be ourselves)

So maybe you're real, maybe fake