At seventeen, I thought I fell in love
By 21, I had given up
I was through with love and the games it played
So I made a plan to hide my face
So the walls went up to hide you from me
Cause how can you love what you cannot see
Baby please, I'm down on my knees here
I would break myself to be what you need
Cause one day I'm a sinner
The other I'm a saint
And I live like a pretender
Like my heart don't ever break
You see I'm drowning in my silence
I'll carry on without a care
These are the masks I wear
Ohh, the masks I wear
They push down, they tell you get back up
The ones you love tell you you're not enough
So you force a smile to hide your pain
Darlin' don't you think it's time for a change
Cause one day you're a sinner
The other you're a saint
You live like a pretender
Like your heart don't ever break
I see you drowning in your silence
You'll carry on without a care
I see the masks you wear
We preach of love, we practice hate
And they say that "you can fall in love as long as you're straight"
Or "you can only kill when it's in God's name"
And politics just shifts the blame
Cause one day we are sinners
The other we're all saints
We live like we're pretenders
Like our hearts don't ever break
You see we're drowning in our silence
We'll carry on without a care
Let's take off the masks we wear
The masks we wear
