Pick up the pieces I want you to see this To feel it, cause it shimmers in the dark Dancing in circles, in silence More beautiful than diamonds And it's breaking me apart And I've waited all my life For a stage to speak my mind It's a crystal clear vision And I'm afraid of what they'll say If they see me in this way So I tell myself To fake a smile Carry on Head up high Like nothing's wrong And dress it up And play pretend Forever young Like the party never ends If you could only see what lurks beneath this feeling A creature so strange It crawls up on my ceiling And I scream but it's no use So maybe there's a day I wake up from this fever Take a look at myself I finally get to meet her There's a beauty in her truth And I've waited all my life For a stage to speak my mind It's a crystal clear vision And I'm afraid of what they'll say If they see me in this way So I tell myself Fake a smile Carry on Head up high Like nothing's wrong And dress it up And play pretend Forever young Like the party never ends Oh, oh, oh, oh And it just keeps creeping on in I think it's bout to begin Here it goes Feel my breath lose control And it doesn't get better than this This is my only one wish And I know, got to put on a show Fake a smile Carry on Head up high Like nothing's wrong And dress it up And play pretend Forever young Like the party never ends No the party never ends The party never ends No the party never ends