LYRIC FOR SALE

By Jax Martin

Miss Demeanor

Don’t be naive
She’s a woman
It’s make-believe
There’s a reason
It’s not for real

She’s a product of society
Her family’s upbringing and school
She was taught to be pleasant and pretty
Never too affirmed or truthful
Old people really don’t make it easy
On girls who bend their gender rules

As she grew up she learned to lie
Omit, exaggerate, censor
She hid the bad and the ugly inside
Under a mask of false candor
Until the day even she was beguiled
And thus was born Miss Demeanor

Miss Demeanor
You’d never ever guess that she’s
A fraud, a player
You’ll put her to the test and she’ll
Come out the victor
Oh, she’s a smooth operator

Miss Demeanor
She’s banking on the fact that you’re
No lie detector
She’ll weave fiction with tact and you’ll
Buy her character
Oh, she’s trouble, Miss Demeanor

She is a calculus master
A virtuoso of deceit
You don’t realize that she’s the conductor
And you’re just second violin
And the performance has been well rehearsed
Each smile and batting of her lids

She is a method trained actress
She sees life as her acting stage
Between leading and lady in distress
She knows how to move and amaze
Deliverig each line with such finesse
You stand there watching in a daze

Miss Demeanor
You’d never ever guess that she’s
A fraud, a player
You’ll put her to the test and she’ll
Come out the victor
Oh, she’s a smooth operator

Miss Demeanor
She’s banking on the fact that you’re
No lie detector
She’ll weave fiction with tact and you’ll
Buy her character
Oh, she’s trouble, Miss Demeanor

She’s a product of society
Her family’s upbringing and school
She was taught to be pleasant and pretty
Never too affirmed or truthful...

We are products of society
We were moulded but never fooled
Now we’re older and wild and free
And we have learned to bend the rules

Don’t be naive
We are women
It’s make-believe
There’s a reason
Nothing’s for real

There’s a little misdemeanor
In all of us and so you see
There’s a little misdemeanor
In every girl you’ll ever meet

There’s a little misdemeanor
In all of us and yes I mean
There’s a little Miss Demeanor
In every girl you’ll ever meet


J.R. Mallard 23/02/2019