Forced Smiles

by Jaryd Hoffman

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Put together completely on my iPhone 5s using garageband. This song is about how we can feel so pressured trying to act happy and serve people all the time. It gets to feel like a chore sometimes. But we need to remember that we are all struggling and its not about us. We need to be praying for the strength to serve as Jesus served. The song structure begins with how I feel sometimes, a prayer to God then Gods response.

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Forced smiles
Showing signs of age
Small cracks in the paint
But you can't see them from far away

Keeping busy
Don't talk to me
Cause if you do you could break me
Questions and favours
But I'm not the only one
Enduring labours
They need help keeping their masks on too...

All this talking, this noise
It's constricting
Outside the doors is my escape
Can't you take me now?
We could hide away
But this is not, what you've called me to

Sustain my spirit
And take my flesh
Renew my mind
I'm on the edge
Breaking underneath
You want me to lean on you
I try to fix my mask with paper clips and string
I'm freaking out and breathing hard my mask covers my eyes it's hard to see you
"Son, you have a new face now"

Take it off
Take it in
I'm your life
Wear me thin
I will give you rest soon my son,
You can't say I've left you not once

I made you
Became you
I know you in entirety
I've been where you are child dry your eyes
I know all the ways they patronise

Take a pause, include me
Take a breath, let the truth be
All you see
All you do
All you take to heart
All you listen too
x2

I have your life, now I'm yours always

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released April 27, 2014

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