Jealous World

There are things I’ll never know
And things I’ll never be
And I wish that I could truthfully
Say that’s fine with me

But somehow 
In this twisted little mind
I feel left out
I feel like I’ve been left behind

Spent a lifetime wearing smiles
That didn’t meet my eyes
Playing touch-up, playing dress-up
Perfecting my disguise

And somehow
I just learned to play along
Wrote it down
Dressed it up into a song

And there’s no way out
There’s only down
Down into a spiral-swirl
Buried in a jealous world

Watched you come into your own
Watched you get what I desired
Watched my own light dwindle out
And yours rage to a fire

Yet somehow
I still keep up the pretense
I skirt around
Throw up walls in my defense

And there’s no way out
There’s only down
Down into a spiral-swirl
Buried in a jealous world

Let me out
Break through the frozen ground
And let me out
Lead me off the battleground
(repeat)

Because there’s no way out
There’s only down
Down into a spiral swirl
Buried in a jealous world