You ask me how I am
Very well, thank you
Gotta go, talk another time
Then I walk away
Before I know, I'm running home
Where I can be alone

I embrace familiar
Stop and take the day off
Throw it in a pile
So familiar, then I crumble
Behind my wall of smiles

I smell it on my skin
Holding fast to me
It's only fear, I know it very well
My four walls have eyes
Through which I see where I could go
If I didn't know

But I embrace familiar
Harboring no anger, I'm just trying to reconcile
So familiar when I crumble
Behind my wall of smiles

So familiar when I crumble
Behind my wall of smiles
So familiar, for no other
Leave me for a while
So familiar when I crumble
Behind my wall of smiles

� 1996 Lushmole Music (BMI), Little Sharpster Music (BMI), Yani Music Publishing (BMI)

Lyrics courtesy of Lushmole Music.