• You wear your make-up heavy
    To cover up old scars
    No one suspects your actions
    No one questions who you are

    No one sees the swollen bruises
    That play across your eye
    No one knows the words you say
    Every evening when you cry

    No one can see past the smile
    You have plastered to your face
    No one notices the tension
    When his hands around your waist

    But even when you’re smiling
    And do not shed a tear
    If one could look inside of you
    They’d go blind from all the fear

    Yes you are such a good actress
    Weaving lies and excuses
    No one knows of the beatings
    No one sees how he abuses

    Yes you pile your make-up high
    Far be beyond its normal uses
    So that no one questions who you are
    And so that no one sees the bruises