Keeping Up Appearances

It’s like seldom you feel uncomfortable and you never let us see
A part of you, the part which is unnoticable for
The people who don’t know you at all
And maybe it’s just me but I’d like to see
More of what is true, more of the real you

Coming back home is never easy for people like you
Who want to stay unnoticable, who don’t like to be discovered
Your flaws are perpetually inside you and you feel uncomfortable
Showing them to the naked eye just to feel more like the rest
So maybe it’s easier to pretend
So maybe you will defend your right
To be different from all the rest, your right to be the best

You are keeping up appearances all the time
Maybe it’s just me but I’d like to see
More of what is true, I’d like to see the real you
Because now you’re just keeping up appearances
Keeping up appearances

I want you to call me, I want to hear your voice
I want to know all about you, over again

Simple minded people are telling you to quit the act
But hoping for a better future, you still keep making things up
Just so you could tell your grandchildren that you were a hero
Which in fact is not even a true fact, but who cares
You don’t, so why would I even try to make you understand
That lying is the worst way of telling the truth

Hide yourself in your own little world and feel like the king of the world
If you want to, I won’t stop you because I know it’s what turns you on
It makes you feel like you’ve been the best that you can be
The only thing I want from you is to hear your voice
And for you to tell me your story over again so I could
Remember every detail and whisper in your ear
„I feel like I know you”

You are keeping up appearances all the time
And somehow that’s just what I like about you
You are keeping up appearances, keeping up appearances