Dominoes

Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling You build us up just to knock us back down Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground We're like domino, dominoes, dominoes falling So bleed me of all my self-belief My smile shows all my insecuri-teeth In a kingdom of photoshopped kings and queens We'll never feel happy with ourselves But insecurity sells Dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling You build us up just to knock us back down Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground We're like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling I hide my head under the sheets 'Cause how can I face a world that ridicules the weak? Where beauty is sold on the shelves Forbid that we find it in ourselves And, and now I'm broke, it don't come cheap Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling You build us up just to knock us back down Funny, how you act surprised when we hit the ground We're like dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling Ariah was the most beautiful girl in this world She shined like diamonds and rubies and pearls But then as soon as she turned 13 She forgot just how bright that it was that she gleamed Stuck in a material world of magazines That glamourize the fake and photoshopped beauty queens Top ten beauty tips making her feel inadequate For the first time in her life she felt ugly So Ariah stopped eating to lose weight She spent her dinner money on some make up for her face But no matter how much she'd lost Or how much she bought She was never good enough Or so she thought Ariah felt she could never be loved She started cutting her wrists and hiding her scars with gloves At 16, an anorexic beauty queen, she collapses in a puddle of her tears and blood 'Cause she never felt enough She never felt enough You sell us all this lie that we must buy to keep in touch But we can never buy enough, never buy enough All the riches in the world can't buy a sense of self love Funny how you act surprised when depression levels rise When you force feed inadequacy straight into our eyes Television shows that praise the beautiful people And talent competitions that just laugh at the feeble Billboards, magazines, people turned to plasticine Moulded like a factory, we're growing up to fear feeling ugly It's lunacy A knife in the community, 'cause insecurity breeds judgment Judgment breeds hate, not unity And hierarchy based upon aesthetics is what makes a kid in school get bullied for genetics And I felt so ugly growing up The way that I looked sometimes got me beaten up I mean what the fuck? Sort of culture do we live in When we're defined by the shape of our face When we're ashamed by the size of our waist When we're imprisoned by the form that we take And so we keep buyin' and spendin' That's just how this story goes You build us up just to knock us back down And we just keep falling Like dominoes