Beau Unmasked

In this response to our song, I Wear The Mask, Beau muses over the path she has walked so far and the choices Molly has left her with.

Lyrics:

BEAU:

Ever since I was a child, I wasn’t wanted

Sought my father’s eye

And fought him to arrive where I was wanted

By the law and by

A woman who defined all that I wanted

My partner in crime

He crushed her life when we were caught and

Maybe that is why

I hustle toward the goal

Of wrestling control

Back from the imbeciles who show that

Those below them are their doormats

By the nascent use of tyranny

Of hate, abuse, and bigotry

The surest way you’re losing me

Is choosing your hypocrisy

See, “All the world’s a stage,”

And life is just a masquerade

The players have their ways

Of painting on a passing face

But take a look backstage

They’re facing frantic costume changes

So, the name of the game is

Makin’ their nakedness famous

Finding connections

I live and breathe in secrecy

A head full of questions,

‘Cause knowledge is my currency

I’m learning my lessons

Like how you gonna unmask me?

You want me to crack, I’m sending it back,

like Agatha’s magic, I’m the one doin’ the askin’

Hide it away!

Don’t show your weakness

Who can say

If I am honest?

The key to my ascendancy

Is mastering opacity

It’s diggin’ more dirt on you

Than you can stick on me

So I wear a mask

Hidden in plain view

What you ask

I’ll just turn back on you

So I wear the mask...

Wait

Wait -

Does this mean?

Could it be that

In all of my schemin’ and dreamin’ of

finally bringin’ the heat to the man

Am I just mannin’ up?

I mean, I’m gainin’ esteem and I’m fleein’

the scene when the bleedin’ has come from my hand

The way it’s standin’ up it seems

The closer I get to my goal

The more collateral I’m leavin’

Am I really bringing freedom

Or becoming the demon I wanna see defeated?

It’s hittin’ me ‘cuz

Molly was never a votary of authority

Or me

Is that connected?

‘Cuz looking at him I see my

Knack to attack the bourgeoisie

Wholly reflected

But while I keep myself inside

Molly would open wide

Every single time

Woven in his lies

Were more sides than a cat’s lives

And more faces than a freakin’ dodecahedron

So manipulative!

Drivin’ me insane

Tryna find his game

Tryna figure why he’s so secretive?

Sussing out the long range plan

Of the long reign man

Took me so long to understand

He only had two aims:

To give the people chaos they wanna see

And making Molly’s mockery of those who

try to pin him down

That’s how he tackled every single town

And as we traveled, joy would follow him around

I kinda want that

Do y’all remember he said

He left every town better than he found it?

He was arrogant, but he was right

Even in his scams, he made people feel good or special

I’ve deliberately left places worse because

I felt like it

Because I could

And I’m not doing that again.

I’m gonna take baby steps toward the whole

“leaving the town better” thing

It’s the least I can do for him

I gotta start choosing who I focus on taking down

And I’m coming for you, Lorenzo

Cuz I feel like I

Wanna leave a better world behind, he

Fought to leave a better dream behind and

Called us out when we were all disguised

Taught us to preserve the good inside, and

Watchin’ him I think I’ve changed my mind, like

All this time I’ve just been running blind, I

Gotta leave a better world behind, I-

MOLLY:

I got to leave a better world behind