"acceptable"

everyone
in the entire world
wants to know the exact same thing

how are you doing in school
when's your next play
where are you going
to go to college

and make us proud
our last great hope
and i am afraid

to touch you
to tell you

the truth
nothing but
the truth
nothing but

the little person hiding
beneath the smiling
smiling shell

everyone
in the entire world
asks the exact same thing

and no one wants the answers.