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Painted smiles (draft version)

April 2, 2013
By Lisas.Smile GOLD, London, Other
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Lisas.Smile GOLD, London, Other
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Favorite Quote:
&ldquo;You&#039;ve gotta dance like there&#039;s nobody watching,<br /> Love like you&#039;ll never be hurt,<br /> Sing like there&#039;s nobody listening,<br /> And live like it&#039;s heaven on earth.&rdquo; <br /> ― William W. Purkey<br /> <br /> I also like this quote by Gnarls Barkley:<br /> &quot;You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions.&quot; -Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs

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Painted smiles on painted faces
Witness my rise to grace
Hallow words fill up the spaces,
the emptiness inside
Wary eyes on wary faces,
fill (up)the audience's spaces
they sense the end is near

I knock on the door for my cold embrace
In the dark I think I see your face,
but you're not there and you’re not there
and I'm left, with the echo of the life, I could have had

La lala, la la la, Lala la
da dada, dada, da da, da da da

Broken strings break the silence
My expression is ‘priceless’
It’s almost over now

Painted smiles on painted faces
Witness my fall from grace
Hallow words fill up the spaces,
and hide from the light
Wary eyes on wary faces,
fill (up)the audience's spaces
Waiting for the final blow

© Valerie S., Pikesville, MD

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This is these are the draft lyric, so I'd love it if you could write a suggestion in comment-box-thing. Thank for reading!
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