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Fake a Smile Lyrics
Living souls around me
They don't see
Just staring, closed faces
Fake a smile
Shaking hands, shake their heads
But they don't speak
Only demanding the right numbers
Of me, breaking into pieces
I'm breaking into pieces
My world is turning too fast
I can't get off this spin
I'm moving somewhere I don't want
But all I do is fake a smile
It's so cold around me
I hurry to the next stop
I'm waiting, for something
For someone, to steer me back to my life
Steer me back to my life
My world is turning too fast
I can't get off this spin
I'm moving somewhere I don't want
But all I do is fake a smile
When will I break
When does the ice break
When will I dare to press rewind and start all over
They don't see
Just staring, closed faces
Fake a smile
But they don't speak
Only demanding the right numbers
Of me, breaking into pieces
I'm breaking into pieces
I can't get off this spin
I'm moving somewhere I don't want
But all I do is fake a smile
I hurry to the next stop
I'm waiting, for something
For someone, to steer me back to my life
Steer me back to my life
I can't get off this spin
I'm moving somewhere I don't want
But all I do is fake a smile
When does the ice break
When will I dare to press rewind and start all over
Song Info
Submitted by
dyingshadows On Sep 24, 2006
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sounds like she's obviously covering up pain with a plastic grin.
reading a bit into it, and taking a Weberian angle of analysis...
sounds almost like a lament of the over-rationalization of our world -- shake their hands but they don't speak only demanding the right numbers (rationalization) of me, breaking into pieces (rationalization breaks and reifies everything into pieces)
it's so cold around me I hurry to the next stop
My world is turning too fast
She hides the burden she feels from the steel shell of rationality by "Faking a Smile". In reality she wonders when will it all break --
when will I break when does the ice break when will I dare to press rewind and start all over?
but 'breaking' is irrational. all she can do is Fake a Smile.
well that's my two cents. Thematically it fits with her N. European heritage though too.