THE GREAT DISPLAY by A. Bergey / K. Dennis

We were never a storybook couple
It was drama enough just to get along
The fights and the tears we kept hidden
Tomorrow is always another song

I didn’t pretend to be a dreamer
I didn’t make up all those things I said
I’d written them down on sheets of paper
Late at night after you'd gone to bed

Chorus:
We weren’t hateful in a hateful way
We acted so grateful made a great display

I didn’t come here to be cheerful
We both feel uneasy facing the truth
You try to deflect me with laughter
But you’re nervous on stage and I am too

It’s painful to shatter the image
And admit that we're both just dying inside
Hold up what's left of the mirror
And let it refract everything we hide (Chorus)

I fashioned a letter, I put it in the post
I had the distinct hope that you would understand me
Better on paper or between all the lines
I don’t articulate too great when we get face to face

It’s like I’m speaking with different tongues
From different lungs
I don’t know how much of this is coming through

I didn’t come here to be the joker
I didn’t come here to be laughed about
I wrote the lines that you wanted
But now you refuse to play them out (Chorus)