Acting

Between a rock and a hard place
That's where you put me with the words you say
Not like an elephant where the room fills up
More like 800 one-pound gorillas
These little slights are so slippery
I let them slide, but they always stick with me
It's getting harder to keep 'em underneath

See, if we were a movie, if we were a show
The next scene would be a perfect scenario
Where I'd say how I feel and the reasons I felt it
And all of these passive aggressions would be dealt with
I'd hear your story, you'd see my side
The music would swell and every other line would rhyme
We'd finally acknowledge what's happening
But this ain't a movie, so we just keep acting

We know our little number so well
The stage is covered up in egg shells
We do our dances and hit our marks
Deliver dialogue we memorized by heart
We'd never break our characters
We'd never leave the fourth wall shattered
Because if I took offense, you'd play innocent
I'd look petty and over-sensitive

But if we were a movie, if we were a show
The next scene would be a perfect scenario
Where I'd say how I feel and the reasons I felt it
And all of these passive aggressions would be dealt with
I'd hear your story, you'd see my side
The music would swell and every other line would rhyme
We'd finally acknowledge what's happening
But this ain't a movie, so we just keep acting

If we were a movie, if we were a show
The next scene would be a perfect scenario
Where I'd say how I feel and the reasons I felt it
And all of these passive aggressions would be dealt with
I'd hear your story, you'd see my side
The music would swell and every other line would rhyme
We'd finally acknowledge what's happening
But this ain't a movie
So we just keep acting