Watch children cry
The pageant sells a lie
Third place isn't
winning, you know
Neither is first
The pressure and
the thirst
For this skeleton's show
I am so thin-skinned
Don't scratch the surface
Please let me live within
Within this circus
Little dreams
come crashing
Let them wave
in passing
'Cause fame won't
love you like a mother,
like a father should
And you may
wish for Oscars
Grammys and
blockbusters
But they won't love
you like a brother,
like a lover should
No, oh
Fame won't love you
like a mother, like
a father should
Woah, oh
Fame won't love you
like a mother, like
a father should
Searched in your eyes
For some glimmer
of light
Tap dancing for
one million miles
I looked for the smiles
Oh, hoping in
them I'd find
Validation for my
futile existence
I am so thin-skinned
Don't scratch the surface
Please let me live within
Within this circus
Little dreams
come crashing
Let them wave
in passing
'Cause fame won't love
you like a mother, like
a father should
And you may
wish for Oscars
Grammys and
blockbusters
But they won't love
you like a brother,
like a lover should
No, oh
Fame won't love you
like a mother, like
a father should
Woah, no
Fame won't love
you like a mother,
like a father should
No, oh
Fame won't love you
like a mother, like
a father should
No, oh
Fame won't love you
like a mother, like
a father should
No