Trice Under the lights, amongst the jazz shoes, blistered feet and caked faces of the dance troupe, you pretend you're someone else. The melody begins and your body responds. You allow it to weave into your skin until it's made itself home in your soul. It is that dance that drives you. It is that dance that will continue to save you. It is that dance that will release you. Until him. Until your heart can no longer shut him out, even after he's pushed you away. You can't let him in again, can you? There's only so much of your heart left to give. Alex She is the reason I can't stay. The reason...
Trice Under the lights, amongst the jazz shoes, blistered feet and caked faces of the dance troupe, you pretend you're someone else. The melody begins...
Hazel I've spent my younger years acting, safe in a world of make-believe. I learnt to transform into roles to hold onto a sense of harmony in my life. Years later, still in that moment, I am another face. Another mask. I am not me-the forgotten daughter, the quiet friend, the unrequited love. Until the pretending becomes meaningless. And my life hardens again. I'm tired of acting for my friends when my parents ignore me. I'm tired of acting for myself when I want the world to stop being so hard. I'm tired of holding back from the only man I've ever loved. Even though being drawn to him...
Hazel I've spent my younger years acting, safe in a world of make-believe. I learnt to transform into roles to hold onto a sense of harmony in my life...
