What lingers within

What lingers within?

With a smile on my face
I laugh and play
How happy I seem

To hide what lingers within

Dancing and joking
Drinking and smoking
How cool I seem

To hide what lingers within

Everything is okay
When they ask
I have nothing to be sad about
When they ask again

Trying to hide what lingers within
You see
My friend
I struggle each day
The nights are the worse

Trying to hide what lingers within

There's something
That's growing
Stronger each day
Deep within

It's my worst fear
For as it grows stronger
I grow weaker
And it wont be long now

Till I cant hide what lingers within

I wont be the same
It's like I'm dying
Though I'm trying to pretend

What is it?
They ask again and again

It's my demon within