The Surface Of Me

Oh yeah!

A study of history
Reveals an unflagging appeal to mystery
You talk about abstraction at the top of the list
But you might as well get pissed
Cause in me the essence does not exist, no-oh-oh
Yeah, yeah!

You're so shallow
How can your romance hope to be the veil of
An ersatz human nature?
That can pacify but never slept well
When there's the pretension of living a lie

Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say, it's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me, you know

Oh yeah!
Apologies to Skinner, but I do believe
I feel like I'm a winner
Having just discovered a long solved modal secret
Of how I always feel
So goddamn downtrodden and desperate

Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say, it's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me

Take me as I am, judge me for my crimes
I can say I'll behave freely all the time
You can predict what I'll say, it's in my DNA
But soon I'll be a catalogue number anyway
So say a little prayer
Convince yourself that someone cares
All I am is what you see
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me
There is nothing more than the surface of me

What you see is the surface of me