Picture Perfect Thing

Verse 1

Woke up with my jaw locked tight

Same ceiling staring back since I was nine

They taught me how to smile on cue

And bury every question out of view

I bit my tongue until it bled

Learned to nod and nod and nod instead

But something in the wiring snapped

The quiet kid just finally collapsed

Pre-Chorus

So tell me who I'm supposed to be

I forgot the script they gave to me

Chorus

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

I'm not the girl who never made a scene

You wanted silence so you got a scream

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

Post-Chorus

Nah nah nah I'm not yours

Nah nah nah not anymore

Verse 2

Sixteen years of held-in noise

Choking on a thousand swallowed words

The mirror shows a stranger's face

With freckles I was told to rearrange

I dyed my hair a brighter lie

A color that could look them in the eye

And every scar I keep beneath

Is a sentence that I finally get to speak

Pre-Chorus

So tell me who I'm supposed to be

I burned the script they gave to me

Chorus

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

I'm not the girl who never made a scene

You wanted silence so you got a scream

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

Post-Chorus

Nah nah nah I'm not yours

Nah nah nah not anymore

Bridge

Shove it down and watch it rise

Every wound becomes a spine

Every bruise becomes a fight

Shove it down and watch it rise

Guitar Solo

Chorus

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

I'm not the girl who never made a scene

You wanted silence so you got a scream

I'm not your little picture perfect thing

Post-Chorus

Nah nah nah I'm not yours

Nah nah nah not anymore

Nah nah nah I'm not yours

Nah nah nah not anymore