A Grin from Ear to Leer

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"The false smile maketh of the man
Glass empty or half full
Try to make some sense or sorrows drown
All looks well on the outside
Underneath the solemn truth
There's something that inside has died
Tomorrow comes tomorrow goes
But the cloud remains the same
Wonder why he's feeling down
Tears of a clown
Maybe it's all just for the best
Lay his weary head to rest
Was forever feeling drowned" - Lyrics from song "Tears of a clown" by Iron Maiden

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I wear a smiley face, the sad world to cheer, With a red smile painted across my face from ear to ear. My shoes are monstrous, my laugh billows, raucous out loud. I'm the jester dancing in your face to please the crowd. But deep within this masked disguise of paint, Something inside has died, that's neither funny, silly nor quaint. For the tears painted on my face are not fake but real, For I cannot shed the dark cloud's doom, and its thunderous peal. Playing the fool, clowning around is a shield, For the somber dark sadness felt within and revealed, When the tears of clowns roll down my painted cheeks. Warm, wet and fresh, as the sadness within wells-up, and bleats.

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