00:17They told me the lights were heaven
00:22They told me, child, just smile
00:27They said the door was open
00:32But never told me the price
00:37A little gold around the promise
00:42A little camera in the room
00:47Everybody loved the picture
00:50Nobody asked what happened when it was through
00:59She was just a girl beneath the spotlight
01:02Learning how to disappear and shine
01:04Every stranger knew the face they gave her
01:07No one knew the child they left behind
01:09They called the silence, being grateful
01:12Called the bruises, part of growing up
01:14And every time she tried to tell the story
01:17Someone turned the music up
01:19Look closer, don't look away
01:23The answer wasn't hidden
01:26We were trained not to see
01:30The truth was right in front of us
01:35Dressed in diamonds, dressed in gold
01:40Crying through a perfect photograph
01:46Selling stories we were told
01:50We thought the monster were a monster space
01:53We thought the darkness lived below
02:00But sometimes evil wears a welcome smile
02:03And calls itself a show
02:05Oh, the truth was right in front of us
02:12How did we never know?
02:18Right in front of us
02:23Right in front of us
02:29There was a room with no windows
02:31And a thousand doors with names
02:34Some came in carrying their dreams
02:36Some walked out carrying shame
02:39They said
02:40Don't ruin your own future
02:42They said
02:42You'll never work again
02:44Funny how the warning always comes
02:46Before the story reaches them
02:49A little kingdom built on whispers
02:51A little throne behind the screen
02:54Everybody swears they saw nothing
02:56Everybody knows what that can mean
02:59And every broken voice became a troubled star
03:02Every question became a scandal
03:06Every scar became a scar
03:10The truth was right in front of us
03:15Dressed in diamonds, dressed in gold
03:20Crying through a perfect photograph
03:26Selling stories we were told
03:30We thought the monster wore a monster's face
03:33We thought the darkness lived below
03:40But sometimes evil wears a welcome smile
03:43And calls itself a show
03:47Oh, the truth was right in front of us
03:52How did we never know?
04:10Now connect the little moments
04:12The interviews we call too strange
04:15The children growing up too quickly
04:17The ones who somehow never stayed the same
04:20The laughter after someone's breaking
04:23The headlines when the witness falls
04:25The way a room can change its memory
04:28When the powerful make the cause
04:30No single threat can tell the whole truth
04:33No rumor makes a fact appear
04:36But when the same old wounds keep echoing
04:40Maybe we should finally hear
04:43They didn't need to hide the shadows
04:47They only needed brighter lights
04:49And we applauded
04:51Every night
04:53The truth was right in front of us
04:57Not buried underneath the ground
04:59But lived between the broken sentences
05:02And
05:03In everything they wouldn't say out loud
05:08Out, out, out, out
05:11We kept on waiting for a secret door
05:15A code and mat, a smoking gun
05:17But maybe all the clues were human tears
05:20And every voice was telling us something
05:23The truth was right in front of us
05:28Right there beneath the sun
05:32What if the secret isn't who?
05:35What if the secret is the way?
05:38The way the innocent become a product
05:40The way the frightened learn to play
05:43The way your name becomes a prison
05:45The way your dream becomes a chain
05:47The way we call it entertainment
05:50So we don't have to feel the pain
05:53No one has to say their name
05:55Because the pattern says enough
05:58No one has to point a finger
06:01When the mirror shows us
06:03What we've done
06:06We asked where all the monsters were
06:11We asked who held the strings
06:17We searched behind the curtain
06:21But we were sitting in the audience
06:25While the children learn to sing
06:55When the children learn to sing
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