Smile For The Camera

(camera shutters, crowd screams, distorted flash sounds)

Smile for the camera

Flash-flash, glamour

Everybody wants a piece of the monster

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Lip gloss bleeding on the cigarette

Fake love wrapped in expensive threats

Velvet rope around my throat tonight

But I still pose under the neon lights

Every headline got my name misspelled

Everybody loves a private hell

Front row watching me self-destruct

Then asking why I’m so fucked up

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Bright lights, black eyes

Beauty’s just a good disguise

Cry now, monetize

Turn the pain into a highlight

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Smile for the camera

Even if it kills ya

Pretty little doll with the heartbreak filter

Smile for the camera

Flash like a disaster

Everybody wants ya

Tears look better when they’re shot in ultra

Smile for the camera

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(heavy synth drop)

Flash-flash

Pose like you mean it

Flash-flash

Bleed but conceal it

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High heels crushing broken glass

Move too fast, don’t look back

Digital angels in the VIP

Everybody here’s a vanity disease

Mirror mirror on the phone

Tell me I’m still worth the gold

If I disappear tonight

Would they miss me — or the spotlight?

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No sleep, no peace

Just dopamine and magazine dreams

Red carpets covering tragedy

But baby, that’s celebrity

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Smile for the camera

Even if it kills ya

Pretty little doll with the heartbreak filter

Smile for the camera

Flash like a disaster

Everybody wants ya

Tears look better when they’re shot in ultra

Smile for the camera

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I learned how to cry in HD

Turn my trauma into beauty

If the whole world’s gonna stare

I’ll give them something worth seeing

(whispered)

Smile… smile…

Don’t let them see you cracking…

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Smile for the camera

Blood looks high fashion

Living like a headline nobody imagined

Smile for the camera

Dance through the panic

Cinematic damage

Everybody loves a beautiful collapse and—

Smile for the camera

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(camera shutters slowing down into static)

Flash-flash

Smile for the camera

Flash-flash

Everybody loves the glamour…