Songs in Depth
I once knew someone whose face often seemed angry and somewhat tormented by life.
I imagined that this was a protective response to shield themself from further trauma.
As this countenance continued through the years I wondered, “What if you become the image of what you are portraying?”
It was said that Yul Brynner, who played the king in The King and I on Broadway, blended his own identity with the character he played over 4000 times. I wondered how much this person’s angry visage had blended into their personality— a scary thought, but it became the song Firemask.
Verse 1
He wears a firemask everyday
He thinks this visage will keep tears away
He wears an angry face with knitted brows
Has to protect himself protect his house
Chorus 1
So he wears a firemask, firemask
Created just for this
Firemask protects him from
Who he really is
Firemask, firemask
Standing in between
Who he really is inside
From what the world can see
Verse 2
He wears a firemask and years go by
But he became the mask, the mask inside
What he thought would save himself from his inner "Me"
Became the man he did not want to be
Chorus 2
Firemask firemask
Created just for this
Firemask protects him from
Who he really is
Firemask, firemask
Standing in between
Who he really is inside
From what the world can see
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Bridge
Firemask, take it off
Don't hide from who you are
Let yourself be known and loved
Don't hide out in the dark
Firemask, it’s not you
Don’t live a lie inside
Let yourself be known and loved
In spite of stupid pride
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Instrumental
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Chorus
Don’t wear your
Firemask
Created just for this
Firemask protects him from
Who he really is
Firemask, firemask
Standing in between
Who he really is inside
From what the world can see
Outro
Remove the firemask
No more firemask
Forsake your firemask
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