We live in a world that runs on the surface
Where the skin and the bone serves a daily purpose
Of sorting the beautiful from the rest of the stock
And distributing the chances around the block
Unevenly with more going to the fine-featured
Surface world and its beautiful creatures
Surface world surface world all about the face
Surface world surface world keeping me in place
Below the beautiful below the fine and bright
Surface world surface world it ain’t right
But right don’t enter the equation here
Surface world making my path less clear
I know there’s more to life than what I look like
I’ve built real things and I’ve ridden my own bike
Through every valley that the plain man rides
Through the rooms that don’t open wide
For the ordinary face but here’s the fact
Surface world keeps bringing me back
The surface world is the water that we swim in
Whether we want to we’re all of us in
The system that rewards the beautiful first
Surface world and this is the worst
Of the unfairnesses that nobody names
Surface world and its unspoken games