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Idol Lies

from The Skin Of My Teeth by Happy Tooth

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lyrics

This isn't my first show.
I'm just living in your poem.
Just some background prop that's so shy.
I'll just die in this scene, so give me no lines.
It's fine, I never had much to say.
I can get booed and not even touch a stage.
I just tried to write some good songs.
But they came out all wrong.
I only wanted to be a rapper.
I didn't think all I'd see was actors.
I don't wanna buy your mixtape.
Put it back in your pocket
and drop it cause the shits fake.
Don't wish on a falling trapstar.
They forget to mention that part
where they blacked out in a crackhouse,
gone before they sat down
and the pipe is cashed now.
I'd rather idolize idle lives cause
every idol lies.
But my eyes are blind and I deny why I survive.
Worms will eat my corpse whole.
I know I'm not immortal.
I guess death is cordial
so don't save my poor soul.
We'll eat like we won't get full,
the good kids never ever miss school.
It's hard for art to be successful.
Everything's so stressful,
when your just a cesspool.
And now I've been so drunk through each night.
I hope this won't always seem right.
It gets harder to stay awake,
so I sleep the day away.
No one should look up to me.
I'm not what you want to be.
I'm as lost as the rest of them.
Swallowing the perfect medicine.

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from The Skin Of My Teeth, released May 12, 2015

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"Both Happy Tooth and BDotJeff spoke to the idea that music can be therapeutic, and writing and recording is now less about reaching a larger audience than steadying the turmoil within. “You do start to question your own motivations, like, why am I doing this?” Happy Tooth said. “And I’ve realized that I love the art, and I have to make it because deep down it makes me feel better.” - MatterNews ... more

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