Easy Life Easy Face

I watched it play out over twenty good years
How the beautiful boy moved without the same fears
That the rest of us carried through every damn room
He walked in like sunlight I walked in like gloom
Adjacent to sunlight if you squint right and true
Easy life easy face I’m still carrying through

Easy life easy face not my specific prize
Easy life easy face behind my plain eyes
He gets the assumption he gets the first yes
Easy life easy face and I’m taking the test
That the beautiful skip because they’ve already passed
Easy life easy face and I’m coming in last

The psychology papers will tell you the score
That beauty compounds beauty opens more
Doors and the compounding of each opened door
Means the beautiful end up with increasingly more
While the plain-faced among us fight inch by inch
Easy life easy face and I don’t want to flinch

I’ve built my own portrait of what I could reach
Through effort and grinding and practice and speech
And talent and showing up doing the work
But the beautiful passed me without a smirk
Because they didn’t even notice I was in the race
Easy life easy face and I’m keeping my place