Simple Proportions

**You Make This Too Easy**

instrumental

verse 1

There was a girl who learned the secret

To make the whole room look her way

She built herself a perfect picture

And dressed it up for every stage

Every detail had a purpose

Every piece was set in place

A fantasy that lived forever

Wearing someone else’s face

pre-chorus

She found a way to hold their focus

She found a way to make them stare

But the more she built the picture

The less of her was really there

chorus

She made it too easy

To believe the things she showed

A perfect little fantasy

Wrapped around a world unknown

Why was she so scared?

What was she hiding behind?

Was the person underneath

Less than the picture in their mind?

She kept the illusion

She kept the perfect scene

But the more she hid the real her

The louder the question seemed

verse 2

Every song went further

Every boundary moved

Another little fantasy

With something left to prove

Every word was chosen carefully

To get the reaction she would seek

Every piece of the character

Covered what she couldn’t speak

She became the story she created

A legend built before the truth

A thousand different versions

Of a person no one knew

pre-chorus

Everyone knew the image

Everyone knew the role

But nobody could answer

Who was hiding underneath it all

chorus

She made it too easy

To believe the things she showed

A perfect little fantasy

Wrapped around a world unknown

Why was she so scared?

What was she hiding behind?

Was the person underneath

Less than the picture in their mind?

She kept the illusion

She kept the perfect scene

But the more she hid the real her

The louder the question seemed

bridge

How cruel

To let him believe that this time would be different

When the same old pattern was hiding beneath it

When he starts feeling something beyond the scene

When he reaches for the person behind the screen

Will she still be there when the moment has passed?

Or go back to her own time and leave him in the past?

verse 3

Maybe she never meant to hurt them

Maybe she only chased the light

Maybe every new creation

Was a place she could hide

Because being someone wanted

Was easier than being known

And a perfect little character

Was safer than standing alone

final chorus

She made it too easy

The ending wrote itself

Every perfect little fantasy

Revealed something else

The world could love the picture

The world could love the scene

But somewhere underneath it all

Was someone never seen

She made it too easy

No mystery left to find

The more she built the character

The farther went the real life

outro

Perfect little picture

Perfect little scene

A world full of fantasy

But nobody’s ever seen

She made it too easy