pale forest - mistaken identity lyrics

son, it's never as it seems
the flowing of the silver streams
where people laugh and smile and say
no day is as beautiful as today

i wear the mask of perfection
whenever their heads turn my way
clutched in the embrace of rejection
in a room where i must stay

in hiding
it's where i keep my dreams alive
residing
it's the only place where i can survive

even my mother never knew
that the face she saw was never true
in my room there lives no friend
for whom i must pretend

my gleaming mask upon inspection
is where a hundred diamonds lay
and no one sees the true reflection
where every stone is grey

in hiding
it's where i keep my dreams alive
subsiding
to my place in their hive ...