This Front

Putting on a front for you
Putting on this front for me

Going through the daily grind
Never, ever complain
Everything feels useless now
And always ever a drain

Putting on this useless front
Won't get me anywhere new
Putting on this front for you
Makes my life tedious, too

(potential solo, key shift)

Life you make it all seem wrong
Everything is upside-down
You're not here you should be there
And no one really seems to care

(solo potential, key shift)

I will make this run each day
Nothing ever seems to pay
I wear this coat in every way
But all I see is empty days

All I see is empty days
All I see are empty ways
All I see, empty days
All I see are endless days
Empty days, empty days
Empty days, empty days
All I see is emptiness

I put on this front for you
Though you did not ask me to

We put on these smiling faces
Never showing inner traces
This habit's wide, we all do it
No one knows how to unglue it

(instrumental chaos)

I put on this front each day
I don't know why, it never pays
I put on this front for you
Even you don't want me to

I put on this front behind
All I know is I'm losing my mind

9/21/24

© Huw Powell
printed 5 February 2025

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This Front