Marcus Gray - Gingerbread House Lyrics

[Intro]
Sweet lies and frosted dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Built this house of sugar walls
Just to watch the whole thing fall

[Verse 1]
Mom's in the kitchen, mixing royal icing white
Picture perfect Christmas, everything's alright
Candy canes and gumdrops hiding all the cracks
Can't fix what's broken with some sugar-coated facts
Decorate the outside, make it look so sweet
While inside we're crumbling, ain't no love beneath
Family photos on the wall, all wear fake smiles
Been keeping up appearances for a long damn while

[Chorus]
Gingerbread house, bout to break down
Sugar walls melting to the ground
Playing happy family while we drown
In this gingerbread house, bout to break down
Ain't nothing real, just a Christmas scene
Living in this fake ass dream
Watch it all dissolve like winter snow
Everything we built for show

[Verse 2]
December demons creeping through these halls
Memories of screaming behind these candy walls
Momma tried to hold it, keep the pieces straight
But even perfect icing can't seal our fate
Got these gumdrop buttons, hiding all our scars
Pretending we're together while we're falling apart
This shit ain't sustainable, foundation's made of lies
Just like that gingerbread, eventually it dies

[Bridge]
Year after year, we build it up
Just to watch it crumble, ain't that f*cked?
Sugar-coated misery
This ain't no sweet reality

[Chorus]
Gingerbread house, bout to break down
Sugar walls melting to the ground
Playing happy family while we drown
In this gingerbread house, bout to break down
Ain't nothing real, just a Christmas scene
Living in this fake ass dream
Watch it all dissolve like winter snow
Everything we built for show

[Outro]
Sweet lies and frosted dreams
Nothing's ever what it seems
Built this house of sugar walls
Just to watch the whole thing fall