Dominoes

Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling
You build us up just to knock us back down
Funny, how you act surprised when
We hit the ground
We're like domino, dominoes
Dominoes falling

So bleed me of all my self-belief
My smile shows all my insecuri-teeth
In a kingdom of photoshopped kings and queens
We'll never feel happy with ourselves
But insecurity sells

Dominoes, dominoes, dominoes falling
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling
You build us up just to knock us back down
Funny, how you act surprised when
We hit the ground
We're like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling

I hide my head under the sheets
'Cause how can I face a
World that ridicules the weak?
Where beauty is sold on the shelves
Forbid that we find it in ourselves
And, and now I'm broke, it don't come cheap

Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling
Oh, you build us like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling
You build us up just to knock us back down
Funny, how you act surprised when
We hit the ground
We're like dominoes, dominoes
Dominoes falling

Ariah was the most beautiful
Girl in this world
She shined like diamonds and
Rubies and pearls
But then as soon as she turned 13
She forgot just how bright that
It was that she gleamed
Stuck in a material world of magazines
That glamourize the fake and
Photoshopped beauty queens
Top 10 beauty tips making her feel inadequate
For the first time in her life she felt ugly

So Ariah stopped eating to lose weight
She spent her dinner money on some
Make up for her face
But no matter how much she'd lost
Or how much she bought
She was never good enough or so she thought

Ariah felt she could never be loved
She started cutting her wrists and
Hiding her scars with gloves
At 16, an anorexic beauty queen
She collapses in a puddle of
Her tears and blood
'Cause she never felt enough
She never felt enough

You sell us all this lie that we
Must buy to keep in touch
But we can never buy enough, never buy enough
All the riches in the world can't
Buy a sense of self love
Funny how you act surprised
When depression levels rise
When you force feed inadequacy
Straight into our eyes
Television shows that praise
The beautiful people
And talent competitions that just
Laugh at the feeble

Billboards, magazines
People turned to plasticine
Moulded like a factory
We're growing up to fear feeling ugly
It's lunacy a knife in the community
'cause insecurity breeds judgment
Judgment breeds hate, no unity
And hierarchy based upon aesthetics
Is what makes a
Kid in school get bullied for genetics
And I felt so ugly growing up
The way that I looked sometimes
Got me beaten up i mean what the fuck?

Sort of culture do we live in
When we're defined by the shape of our face
When we're ashamed by the size of our waist
When we're imprisoned by the
Form that we take
And so we keep buyin' and spendin'
That's just how this story goes
You build us up just to knock us back down
And we just keep falling like dominoes