Vanity Mirror

from Poltergeist by ALT GRL

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Wish I was ugly enough to love anyone
Though deep down I'm ugly too
I'll build a vanity mirror, baby
Construct us a better version of you
Maybe that will justify loving you
But right now you're far too ugly for me to

Maybe we can turn down the lights
soften those features I don't like
I'll cover it in pictures of better times
I don't think you're worth the effort to try

Maybe to not make it and just leave would be kind
Maybe to not make it and just leave would be kind

But I hate you and I really don't want to be nice
You're deep down in my soul where all my anger resides
I hope for you that I'm an apparition every night
And it's expressions are reflections of how you look in my eyes

I just want the pain to have been worth something
That penance long ago cleared my conscience
I think that these songs are the best work that I've ever done
And I'm angry at the hand you had in every one
So I'll erase your name from all of this
Bleach it away like the hair on top of your head
Throw our pictures into a big blue sea
The same color as those contacts you'd wear around me
Your eyes are really earth brown and you hide them
You are a jealous child
You are selfish in real life
Your eyes are really dirt brown yeah you hide them
You are a Jealous child
You are selfish in real life
And I do not forgive you

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from Poltergeist, released June 10, 2017

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ALT GRL Houston, Texas

Making melodies out of everything

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Vox-Gregory F.
Synth-Erick W.
Bass-J.E.H.
Drums- Kadhir A.

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