When you're in the dark, or eating a buffet.
Skating in the park, or working for the day.
They tell you it will be okay.
They're lying!
They have just one thing to say!
Stop crying!

I know they don't mean to, beguile.
But what they ask just isn't my, style.

I don't want to live like I am, in denial.
Closing my eyes won't make the pitfalls disappear.
Trust me i've tried it for, a while.
Danger doesn't depend on your fear.

No I don't, wanna smile!
No I don't, wanna smile!

You think sadness equals madness.
But you're delusional.
Happiness won't give you control.
It's just pitiful when you...

Smile!
Smile!

Take your pills, look away, get cheap thrills, stay at bay.
Make excuses, for abuses, that we suffer, everyday!

(This is your president speaking... we assure you, everything is fine.
The world is polluted, politicians are being assassinated, there's an out of control disease, the housing market has crashed
And there's racial tension, we're on the precipice of world war 3, there are countless homeless people and we're running out of drinkable water...
But we assure you, someone is going to promise you to deal with it... and then maybe they'll do... something)


Let's take power! with a smile!
Collapse the ivory tower! with a smile!
Don't riot blindly, destroying property.
We need to focus, on the guilty... with a smile!
A smile!
A smile!

(This is the rebel speaking... let's be better!)

Let's break it down! til we smile!
Then build it up! til we smile!

SMILE!