Fake Smiles Lyrics by Nevv

I - use to drink until the memories of us would fade,
stupid how I thought that that's the way that I would change

I can move mountains, but you're standing in my way

Laughters the best medicine and smiles ease the pain

But these FAKE SMILES, got me lashing out and saying things I shouldnt say

Got me burning bridges down that were so hard to walk across got me in my feelings now, my peers use to manipulate me, with hopes to watch me slip and watch me fall

but look at me now,
look at the features and look at the crowds, look at the people who spoke on my name with the foulest intentions who now put a foot in their mouth - Say I play victim cause I cut em off like a hangnail and now its ironic theyre pointing the finger at me, I'm the one that they talking about!

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say is foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

I - use to write until the memories of us were gone,
Crazy how I thought that thats the way that I'd move on

Wounds are bound to heal but what remains are all these scars, If laughters the best medicine then my smiles not too strong

Cause these FAKE SMILES surround me they empower all my guilt but I wear my mistakes proudly like I'm Captain with his shield and to say I run from problems is like saying I dont feel, I just choose to drop these people who exacerbate my will

Your unsatisfied with life so you just cling to mine, You put all these walls up but to me youre just a glass house I can see inside, Funny how your girl says I'm the bad guy when the truth is she dont know the man she sleeps beside

Please advise,
that I - took a step back to redefine whos a priority versus who tortures my piece of mind

I'm not avoiding things I just made choices that you dont agree with, but honestly I am just done with your ego and trying to feed it, if life is a journey that we design I get the privledge, who joins me, who gets to see it

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now, got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,
Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

WHY explain myself when your goal is to misunderstand me?
WHY go so in depth over feelings you keep devaluing?
WHY should I waste my breath on this message that you keep doubting?
And WHY should I hear you out when your judgement is MORE than cloudy - its flawed, broken, fraudulent, lost - its always caught up in women how much that this or that costs.

I put my life in this music, I put my life in my palm
You put your life in that bottle then pinned it up right on that Instagram wall

See all these FAKE SMILES, got me living less allusive while I read between the lines
Got me walking straight and narrow but I'm speaking out of spite, got me hearing such an earful, I'm the man that you dont like.

All I ask - is that you please make up your mind, Cause when I was a drunk all you did was look down on me

Then I got sober and cleaned up my act, Now you laugh at me, talking sarcastically, gossip all casually, scoff and take jabes at me when I'm not there

Praying for days I fall off no one catches me, taxing my patience and taxing my sanity

I am so sick of these FAKE SMILES that keep surrounding me

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

Oh Lord, Got these fake smiles around me everyday now

got these people talking bout me what they say's foul,

Sometimes the people that you'd take a bullet for - are the ones that got you aimed down.

[Thanks to aylarsharp for adding these lyrics]