perfidious critic

I silence my phone, throw it across my bedroom Don't wanna see the altruistic people better than me Another item to their list of achievements Under my mental tab of them "Failure" she screams As she claws at the seams Of the new skin growing from old scars Why can't you be, More like what others see When they assume that you're flawless like them. I'm my own perfidious critic. I mask my jealousy with my counterfeit praise To hide the hysteria building up under my gaze Sometimes a little white lie is the perfect disguise to hide the Self-annihilation eating me up inside "Failure" she screams As she claws at the seams Of the new skin growing from old scars Why can't you be, More like what others see When they assume that you're flawless like them. I'm my own perfidious critic. There's no manual for fixing a nervous wreck. There's no key for the cage the heart's trapped in You're the one slowly stabbing the knife into yourself. "Failure" she screams As she claws at the seams Of the new skin growing from old scars Why can't you be, More like what others see When they assume that you're flawless like them. I'm my own perfidious critic. I'm my own perfidious critic.