Modern Faces

Drop

Modern faces

Modern faces

Verse 1

Look in the mirror

A different man stares back

Flicker-frame reactions inside a thumbnail mask

I say it like I mean it

I say it for the crowd

I say it just to hear my name

Everything is pre-approved

The words are filtered out before they hit the room

Pre-Chorus

Trading pulses for a signal line

Blur the truth in real time

Hard to tell where I begin

Chorus

Modern faces in a modern frame

Frozen smiles that don’t reach the eyes

Every second’s staged the same

Call your name but the sound just dies

Modern faces

No one stays

Fade to black in a bold design

We’re wide awake but stuck in place

Living life that’s been reassigned

Drop

Modern faces

Stuck in place

Modern faces

Verse 2

Numbers climbing higher

While the heavy feeling drops

Moment to moment

We are aiming for the mark

Talk in coded language

Keep it clean and fast

Nothing ever lingers here

Nothing ever lasts

Pre-Chorus

Trading voices for a sharper line

Cut the bone to fit the design

Hide the way we really feel

Chorus

Modern faces in a modern frame

Frozen smiles that don’t reach the eyes

Every second’s staged the same

Call your name but the sound just dies

Modern faces

No one stays

Fade to black in a bold design

We’re wide awake but stuck in place

Living life that’s been reassigned

Drop

Signal line

Modern faces

Modern faces

Bridge

Pull the wire

Let it fall away

Kill the feed

Let the silence stay

No reflections

No delay

Just a breath you don’t have to fake

Are you there when the screen goes grey

Do you know what you’d even say

Chorus

Modern faces in a modern frame

Frozen smiles that don’t reach the eyes

Every second’s staged the same

Call your name but the sound just dies

Modern faces

No one stays

Fade to black in a bold design

We’re wide awake but stuck in place

Living life that’s been reassigned

Outro

Modern faces

Slipping away

Nothing to say

Drift into grey