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Smiling Faces Tell Lies

-Notice that I'm highly self-sufficient, secretive, and apparently friendless. I never
did really like help or companionship. I welcome it very rarely. I prefer to operate
alone. You may hear people claiming they are in my confidence, that they may even
understand me. They are deluded. I have never had a friend. nor do I believe I have ever
wanted one-
 
I'm not blind, you can't stand me, can you, go ahead admit it

What is it, my good looks, king-natured swagger, or refusal to take it

If that's the case, then why do you compulsively smile in my face

Duh, there's no other explanation for it, your image is fake

Period

Behind my back you talk about me, but when I'm around it's someone else

If it's happening to them, it's happening to me, I can understand it greatly, I need no help

Its amazing how the people you grew up with and you thought you knew

Would be the main ones plotting to ride together and smoke you

I don't care anymore, because like Nas said: Nowadays its the ways

My father always said watch the smiles, I listen to what he says

So you what you don't like me, am I supposed to care?

I stood up and said to everybody "Be real with me or kill me." Was that enough?

If you ever see people smiling a lot, they're only being phony

The ones wearing those looks be female friends and longtime homies

I am the center of attention, the one my "friends" deeply despise

I've learned the hard way over the years that smiling faces tell lies

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