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Strobe lights sketch a halo ‘round my face
Pigment and powder fix a perfect place
Lips like coins I spend them every night
You clap for me like I’m the only light
But under sequins there’s a quieter ache
Echoes of names that the curtains take
Mirror keeps the secrets I won’t say
It knows the songs I couldn’t make you stay
Crowd sings my lines but never what I feel
So I rehearse the way to seem more real
Gilded smile golden edge on a tired heart
I sell the spark but not the part that’s torn apart
Gilded smile worth a thousand hollow cheers
I paint my joy while I paint out the years
Champagne confessions in a dressing room haze
Stale perfume and postcards from other days
He sits two rows back with the same old grin
A silhouette of might-have-been
I bow to ghosts that wear my favorite shoes
Trade my truth for applause and better news
Spotlight reads the lines I learned to keep
It makes me brave when the world is steep
They love the shape of the story that I wear
But not the weight I hide beneath my hair
Gilded smile golden edge on a tired heart
I sell the spark but not the part that’s torn apart
Gilded smile worth a thousand hollow cheers
I paint my joy while I paint out the years
If you could see me without the lights without the show
Would you learn the way my quiet goes
If you reached past glitter past the stage and past the style
Would you stay or walk away from my gilded smile
You think I sparkle ‘cause I’m happy
You think the glitter hides the cracks
But sometimes the brightest things bleed light to stay intact
Gilded smile take a bow take your curtain call
I hand the applause back to the empty hall
Gilded smile I’ll keep it for the lies it buys
But when the lights go down I’m the one who cries
So keep your roses keep the flashing signs
I’ll keep my gilded smile until it unwinds
One last curtsy to the audience of miles
Then I’ll hide the gold and find the rest behind the gilded smile
