Part 2 of 12 in my personal song-a-month challenge. Gender is complicated, and my nonbinary identity makes me happier. Don't call me a boy, I ain't one.
lyrics
Don’t you call me a pretty boy,
I am the beast that my confidence buys
Don’t give me pity joy,
I am beyond your little lies
I am a horror, I am a queen,
I am the space that sits in between
I’m not your pretty boy,
I’m me
Don’t try to tame me
I won’t be locked inside a cage
It doesn’t matter
You call it gilded but I call it fool’s gold
You call me handsome
You say I look just like my dad when he was my age,
But I am afraid that I’ll never
Know who I wanna be when I get old
Pray for the youth of tomorrow
They’ll never know what it was like today
We are the change of tomorrow
And I hear us say,
Don’t you call me a pretty boy,
I am the beast that my confidence buys
Don’t give me pity joy,
I am beyond your little lies
I am a horror, I am a queen,
I am the space that sits in between
I’m not your pretty boy,
I’m me
If beauty is selfless
Then why is there so much self in art
And why does the selfish brush
Paint much more beautiful pictures than nothing at all
Hold on to your vanity,
When they say that you can’t be beautiful just as you are
But I am exalted in the
Radical genderless clarion call
Pray for the youth of tomorrow
They’ll never know what it was like today
We are the change of tomorrow
And I hear us say,
Don’t you call me a pretty boy,
I am the beast that my confidence buys
Don’t give me pity joy,
I am beyond your little lies
I am a horror, I am a queen,
I am the space that sits in between
I’m not your pretty boy,
I’m me
I’m a lover of change on my
Better days, so many
Better ways to be
But the glorious signs
They try and tear down light my
Way back to me
But they’ll see, so we
Pray for the youth of tomorrow
They’ll never know what it was like today
We are the change of tomorrow
And I hear us say,
Don’t you call me a pretty boy,
I am the beast that my confidence buys
Don’t give me pity joy,
I am beyond your little lies
I am a horror, I am a queen,
I am the space that sits in between
I’m not your pretty boy,
I’m me
The Facades is the solo project of a queer electronic music composer (she/they) who thinks consistent gender and consistent genre are for scrubs. The characters they portray take a front seat, with a witty lyrical edge to speak truth to power.
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