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How to Be Flawless in a Lot of Difficult Steps (Or Just One Easy One)


 

Get perfect grades

Have perfect hair

Have the best clothes

And always beware

Of those nasty emotions

That prove that you’re not

Exactly as flawless

 As everyone thought.

 

Make sure you don’t show

The bad things you think

Don’t let anything out

Even when on the brink

Of a psychotic breakdown

And when you go mad

Remember the good times

You think that you had

 

Make everyone love you

Make lots of money

Drive fast cars

Act like everything’s sunny

Pretend to be loyal

But stick a knife in their spine

Don’t bother with honesty

Lies work just fine

 

But maybe, just maybe

That’s not what you do

Perhaps to be flawless

You just be you

Why try to be perfect

Be yourself, tried and true

‘Cause who’s to say perfect

Isn’t trying to be you?

 

 

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