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Happiness Is Just Cosmetic

from Dance Music 4 Haters by Black Sugar Transmission

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written in Spring of 2007 along with many of the songs that were included on the first BST album, remixed for DM4H in early 2011. probably one of my better lyrics.

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you blow through life
like a half-baked thesis
the world outside,
humming hungry like a plague
you wait for sleep
the swell of voices rising
like a letter-bomb,
the realization hits you

and you pray without believing
your smile covers nothing
and happiness
is just cosmetic

a trail of insects
leading to the poisoned sugar
the papers sell
their morbid poetry
the predators
are sniffing at yr door
their creeping tongues
now visiting yr ear

and the hills are watching
the skies have eyes
and happiness
is just cosmetic

...and on yr face
the bar code tells...
a chosen fate...
and it's time to sell

so you pray without believing
your smile means nothing
the hills are watching
the skies have eyes
you're the butt of a joke
that hardly bears repeating
and happiness...

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from Dance Music 4 Haters, released March 11, 2011

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