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Synchronous Smiles

from The Portrait Peels (Off) by Shadow Grew a Body

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lyrics

Smiles
Synchronous (x14)
Smiles

Synchronous smiles when you tell me I’m illegal
Sign above the line and take your seat around the table
Raise a glass eye up towards the sky and see the people

Synchronous smiles when I’m laughing at your small talk
I time it right and open wide exposing teeth and gum
But I despise what’s in your eyes – that constant background hum

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Synchronous smiles when I beat you on the console
Fucked you off real bad you go and diss me on the social
Sail a boat, a Trojan horse, a gunshot through your wall is totalled

Synchronous smiles now we’re cats that guard our garden
Claws sharp, arched back, fur like sharks fin
Fangs into the neck until you cry out ‘help! I’m choking’

Synchronous smiles when we self-medicate
Piss-weak opinions as the eyes dilate
A chemical gatekeeper with a slow expiry date

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Synchronous smiles are encoded in the bedroom
Of spoon-fed kids with imposter syndrome
Time to stay on track – an existence set to biohack

Let’s stick googly eyes on it
And then
We can pretend
It’s watching us

Let’s give it that flavour
And make it our own
They stole it first
So it’s time to steal it back

Synchronous smiles now forever caught in stasis
A clusterfuck that’s stuck in place, a hell mouth ever open
Sleeping in the job your face droops down – you must be fuckin jokin

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Synchronous smiles when I ask for your permission
You think I’m here to rob a job or crack the shell of your ambition
I won’t be here long enough for you to stop my infiltration

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from The Portrait Peels (Off), released January 1, 2021

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