***Lyrics***

Everyday I see it
It’s always all around
The pictures posted on the walls
The girls stuck in your screens

Poisoning the minds
Of all of today's teens
With the fogged up perception
Of how to look pretty

You're editing the models
In all those magazines
The perfect figure in our heads
Was created by machines

Just skip a meal here and there
To look like her in jeans
But we don’t see the problem
And you don’t change a thing

Can’t you see what you’re doing to me?

You are breaking down
All our self esteem
Can’t you see it’s torture?
The thoughts are killing me
What you see’s not what you get
It leads to broken dreams
Which leave behind broken souls and bodies
Now can you feel it?
It’s the pain of a nation

 Well now you’ve gone too far
And you don’t even care
Somehow the first world’s starving
But you pretend you’re unaware

You dug into our minds
Ripped the fat right off our bones
Broke apart every piece of us
And emptied out our soles

A world that’s full of shells
That once were human beings
But it’s not your concern
Cuz they keep on consuming

You’re for profit not for people
You line your pockets with our pain
Cash in on our insecurities
Making young girls die in vain

When does it end?

You are breaking down
All our self esteem
Can’t you see it’s torture?
The thoughts are killing me
What you see’s not what you get
It leads to broken dreams
Which leave behind broken souls and bodies
Now can you feel it?

Well now the world is catching on
They won’t take your tyranny
Watch them wipe away their tears
As they turn their gaze to you and glare
They’re no longer unaware
We’re ready to fight so take a stand
Cuz we’re not backing down

You are breaking down
All our self esteem
Can’t you see it’s torture?
The thoughts are killing me
What you see’s not what you get
It leads to broken dreams
Which leave behind broken souls and bodies
Now can you feel it?
It’s the pain of a nation

Lauren Kastanis