Fake Smiles

[00:00.46] I used to drink until the memories of us would fade (fade)
[00:04.61] Stupid how I thought that that's the way that I would change (change)
[00:08.07] I can move mountains, but you're standing in my way (way)
[00:11.53] Laughter's the best medicine and smiles ease the pain
[00:14.58] But these fake smiles
[00:16.32] Got me lashing out and saying things I shouldn't say
[00:19.35] Got me burning bridges down that were so hard to walk across
[00:23.02] Got me in my feelings, now, my peers used to manipulate
[00:26.41] Me with hopes to watch me slip and watch me fall
[00:29.36] But look at me now
[00:30.76] Look at the features and look at the crowds
[00:32.45] Look at the people who spoke on my name with the foulest intention
[00:35.11] Who now put a foot in their mouth
[00:36.17] Say I play victim 'cause I cut them off like a hang nail, now, it's ironic
[00:39.52] They point the finger at me, I'm the one who they're talking about
[00:42.19] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[00:43.33] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now
[00:46.72] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul
[00:49.87] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[00:52.89] Are the ones that got you aimed down
[00:55.50] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[00:57.21] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now
[01:00.62] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul
[01:04.02] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[01:06.51] Are the ones that got you aimed down (aimed down)
[01:09.89] I used to write until the memories of us were gone
[01:14.16] Crazy how I thought that that's the way that I'd move on
[01:17.56] Wounds are bound to heal, but remains are all these scars
[01:20.74] If laughter's the best medicine, then my smile's not too strong
[01:24.31] 'Cause these fake smiles surround me, they empower all my guilt
[01:27.77] But I wear mistakes proudly like I'm captain with his shield
[01:31.21] And to say I run from problems is like saying I don't feel
[01:34.82] I just chose to drop these people who exacerbate my will
[01:38.14] You're unsatisfied with life, so you just cling to mine
[01:41.14] You put all these walls up but to me, you're just a glass house I could see inside
[01:45.51] Funny how your girl says, I'm the bad guy
[01:47.65] When the truth is, she don't know the man she sleeps beside
[01:50.78] Please advise that I took a step back to redefine
[01:53.73] Who's a priority versus? Who's tortures my peace of mind?
[01:56.36] I'm not avoiding things, I just made choices that you don't agree with
[01:58.95] But honestly, I am just done with your ego, and trying to feed it
[02:01.59] If life is a journey that we design
[02:03.32] I get the privilege, who joins me, who gets to see it
[02:05.56] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[02:06.87] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now (day now)
[02:10.25] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul (say's foul)
[02:13.56] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[02:16.10] Are the ones that got you aimed down (tu-tu-tu)
[02:19.07] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[02:20.74] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now (everyday now)
[02:24.20] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul (what they say's foul)
[02:27.57] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[02:30.25] Are the ones that got you aimed down (got you aimed down)
[02:33.33] Why explain myself when your goal's to misunderstand me?
[02:36.80] Why go so in depth over feelings you keep devaluing?
[02:40.25] Why should I waste my breath on this message that you keep doubting?
[02:43.41] And why should I hear you out when your judgement is more than cloudy?
[02:46.77] It's flawed, broken fraudulent lost
[02:49.31] It's always caught up in women how much that this or that cost's
[02:52.96] I put my life in this music, I put my life in my palm
[02:56.08] You put your life in that bottle then pin up right on your Instagram wall
[03:00.59] See all these fakes smile (fakes smile)
[03:02.47] Got me living less allusive while I read between the lines
[03:06.30] Got me walking straight narrow, but I'm speaking out of spite
[03:09.43] Got me hearing such an earful, I'm the man that you don't like
[03:12.91] All I ask is that you please make up your mind
[03:15.21] 'Cause when I was drunk, all you did was look down on me
[03:17.28] Then I got sober and cleaned up my act, now you laugh at me
[03:19.40] Talking sarcastically, gossip all causally
[03:21.15] Scoff and take jabs at me when I'm not there
[03:22.95] Praying for days I fall off, no one catches me
[03:24.35] Taxing my patience and taxing my sanity
[03:26.35] I am so sick of these fake smiles that keep surrounding me
[03:29.08] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[03:30.32] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now (everyday now)
[03:33.62] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul (say's foul)
[03:37.03] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[03:39.78] Are the ones that got you aimed down (tu-tu-tu)
[03:42.53] Oh, Lord (oh, Lord)
[03:44.10] Got these fake smiles around me everyday now (everyday now)
[03:47.62] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul (what they say's foul)
[03:51.03] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[03:53.98] Are the ones that got you aimed down (got you aimed down)
[03:56.57] Oh, Lord
[03:57.95] I got these fake smiles around me everyday now
[04:01.59] Got these people talking 'bout me, what they say's foul
[04:04.83] Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for
[04:07.47] Are the ones that got you aimed down
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