We put on our masks you and I
And pretend to the world we're all right
But both of us know
When we're on our own
It's more than it's worth to try

I've been crawling in the trenches
You've been mustering your forces
But no one's gonna win this war

It's been months since the world
Has been safe as it is
And our feet were firm on the shores

Our hearts are weeping
Our eyes are bleeding
Now we're falling, falling
Again

We put on our masks you and I
And pretend to the world we're all right
But both of us know
When we're on our own
It's more than it's worth to try

I sleep but I never dream
You're alive but you never breathe
There's a weary storm pounding at the door

Resuscitate me just so I can drown again
Paralyse me just so I can let you in
Again

We put on our masks you and I
And pretend to the world we're all right
But both of us know
When we're on our own
It's more than it's worth to try

Hide me till the fight is over
Forsake me till the skies get colder
And now we're falling, falling
Falling, falling
Falling, falling again

- Instrumental chaos -

Tread softly now
Even though we don't know how

Every word an anthem
For the hearts that sing inside
It's the dreams of the hopeless
Hung out to dry

It's a graveyard where
All the broken souls go to die
Washed out photographs
Make the bravest soldiers cry

What used to be
What used to be

We put on our masks you and I
And pretend to the world we're all right
But both of us know
When we're on our own
It's more than it's worth to try