The Bear Turned Out to Be the Hero

Head underwater
 I look for the sky
 My lungs are on fire
 I'm fighting the tide
 I'm so afraid of the morning I don't wake up
 But I'm more afraid of living forever.
 I cut off all my hair
 But forgot to untie the ribbon.
 I mastered the shape you wanted to see
 Come from my lips and teeth
 I've spent so long pretending
 To be as happy as you wanted me
 Don't lie about the shame you feel when I say I'm not getting better
 Because no matter how hard I work on myself, I'm always disappointed
 Rather than smiling like the people with the straightest teeth
 I've sought a self-portrait, how I think I should be
 So no matter how wide, there's a gap in my smile
 The ash in my bones will keep it clean
 It's a life on repeat repeat repeat repeat
 If our dreams are only cyclical then where is the progress?
 Misconstrued my pyromania for selfishness
 The heartless hang empty lockets from their necklaces
 So we cried for our mothers
 While our fathers fought our wars
 We lined the pockets of our brothers
 And called our sisters whores
 And this is our condition
 A chronic shame we bury deep
 Make certain it feels ingrained
 The guilt must come naturally
 If we don't fear each other
 And we don't hate ourselves
 Then we may come together
 And make something else
 Don't lie about the shame you feel when I say I'm not getting better
 Because no matter how hard I work on myself, I'm always disappointed
 Rather than smiling like the people with the straightest teeth
 I've sought a self-portrait, how I think I should be
 So no matter how wide, there's a gap in my smile
 The ash in my bones will keep it clean
 It's a life on repeat repeat repeat repeat
 If our dreams are only cyclical then where is the progress?
 Misconstrued my pyromania for selfishness
 The heartless hang empty lockets from their necklaces
 One day we
 Will both be