Dominoes

Oh you build us like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling
Oh you build us like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling

You build us up
Just to knock us back down
Funny how you act surprise
When we hit the ground
We're like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling

So bleed me of all my self belief
My smile shows all my insecuri-teeth
In a kingdom of photoshoped
Kings and queens
We'll
Never feel happy with ourselves
But insecurity sells
Dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling

Oh you build us like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling
You build us up
Just to knock us back down
Funny how you act surprise
When we hit the ground

We're like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling
I hide my head under the sheets
Cause how can I face a world
That ridicules the weak
Where beauty is sold on the shelves
Forbid that we find it in ourselves
And now I'm broke
It don't come cheap

(Oh you build us like) dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling
Oh you build us like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling

You build us up
Just to knock us back down
Funny how you act surprise
When we hit the ground

We're like dominoes
Dominoes, dominoes falling
Ariah was the most beautiful girl in the world
She shined like diamonds and rubies, and pearls
But then... As soon as she turned 13
She forgot just how bright that it was that she gleamed
Stuck in a material world of magazines
That glamorize the fake and photoshopped beauty queens
Top 10 beauty tips making her feel inadequate
For the first time in her life she felt ugly

So Ariah stopped eating to loose weight
She spent her dinner money on some make up for her face
But no matter how must she lost
Or how much she bought
She was never good enough
Or so she thought
Ariah felt she could never be loved
She started cutting her wrists and hiding the scars with gloves
At 16 an anorexic beauty queen
She collapses in a puddle or her tears and blood
Cause she never felt enough
She never felt enough
You sell us all this lie that we must buy to keep in touch
But we can never buy enough
Never buy enough
All the riches in the world can't buy a sense of self love
Funny how you act surprised when depression levels rise
When you force feed inadequacy straight into our eyes
Television shows that praise the beautiful people
And talent competitions that just laugh at the feeble

Billboards, magazines
People turned to plastacine
Molded like a factory
We're growing up to fear feeling ugly it's lunacy
A knife in the community
Because insecurity breeds judgement
Judgement breeds hate no unity
And hierarchy based upon aesthetics
Is what makes a kid in school get bullied for genetics
And I felt so ugly growing up
The way that I looked sometimes got me beaten up
I mean what the fuck

Sort of culture do we live in
When we're defined by the shape of our face
When we're ashamed by size of our waist
When we're imprisoned by the form that we take

And so we keep buying and spending
That's just how this story goes
You build us up
Just to knock us back down
And we just keep falling
Like dominoes