Verse 1
A smile, within darkness and within
abomination.
Blurry vision, stumbling across roads and paths.
I can't hear what I'm saying.
Crawling and scurrying around my mind like rats.
Smile into the camera!
Vivid and wide, eyes bright and intense.
But have you ever looked at it upside down?
Laughs slow down and fade out, until I'm the only one left.
Hearts crumble to ashes and seep into the ground like water.
Ruined, ruined. Speak up, speak up.
Discrimination grows and blooms like an ugly flower.
Words and thoughts slip in your head 'til it fills your mind and you lose yourself.
I'm fine, I'm fine.
But ask yourself that again.
Shut up, shut up.
Pushed to the ground and we can't condemn.
Ripped to shreds, broken to pieces, it's gone just like the wind.
Tell me one more time, tell me to smile more once again and I'll lose my sanity.
Chorus
Look what you've done, look.
Fake smiles spread across them like they're psychos.
Life is dead in this world, dead like dull eyes on grinning faces.
A bullseye is useless without arrows.
Desperation for reality behind a smile as it haunts beings and becomes dangerous.
Why step on shards of glass when the vase is already broken?
The damage is done and always will be.
Life isn't a fairytale, happy ever afters won't always exist.
Behind a smile, behind what may look like joy or love is what life is.
Behind a smile is unknown, and dark.
Behind a smile could be genuine, could be joy.
Behind a smile is something we might never know.
Verse 2
Claws clutching my heart won't retract.
Lowered heads around the streets, going place to place.
They're like headless chickens running around.
Visible to the eye until we disappear without a trace.
Fear of silence and noise, fear of being trapped within people..
The trust and pure love can be broken like a small nudge on ceramic.
But hold it, and maybe these odd numbers will become equal.
Sitting in the corner, with nothing but myself.
You think you're helping, just stop, it's worse.
Maybe I'll know who I am when the world can go quiet.
Stuck inside this cage as life throws knives as me like a curse.
Chorus
Look what you've done, look.
Fake smiles spread across them like they're psychos.
Life is dead in this world, dead like dull eyes on grinning faces.
A bullseye is useless without arrows.
Desperation for reality behind a smile as it haunts beings and becomes dangerous.
Why step on shards of glass when the vase is already broken?
The damage is done and always will be.
Life isn't a fairytale, happy ever afters won't always exist.
Behind a smile, behind what may look like joy or love is what life is.
Behind a smile is unknown, and dark.
Behind a smile could be genuine, could be joy.
Behind a smile is something we might never know.
Bridge
I'm fine, what are you talking about?
Oh sorry, I'll smile more.
Happy?
I'm just tired, that's it.
Don't worry, I try to look happy all the time.
If only the people around us could understand.
Yet they just tell us to smile and look happy.
Chorus
Look what you've done, look.
Fake smiles spread across them like they're psychos.
Life is dead in this world, dead like dull eyes on grinning faces.
A bullseye is useless without arrows.
Desperation for reality behind a smile as it haunts beings and becomes dangerous.
Why step on shards of glass when the vase is already broken?
The damage is done and always will be.
Life isn't a fairytale, happy ever afters won't always exist.
Behind a smile, behind what may look like joy or love is what life is.
Behind a smile is unknown, and dark.
Behind a smile could be genuine, could be joy.
Behind a smile is something we might never know.
