Behind My Painted Smile Lyrics

[Lowkey]
Behind my painted smile, a very flawed human being
Done many things that I regret and never knew the reason

What do you believe in, truth or freedom or are you deceiving?
I don't wanna die in prostration to European's
They say the answer is within you and nowhere else
Understand the vision man on a mission to know himself
This is for my co-defendants no retreat and no surrender
You probably think that we don't remember Ota Benga

[Hook]

[Akala verse:3]
The smile is painted on my face is tainted by a frown
Picture in the pocket's of blood that decorate the town
Trigger jum bullets sung and guns hum
Then everyone that's dead was somebody's someone

[Lowkey]
Behind my painted smile I feel like a naked child
Maybe rapping ain't for now cos my passion is fading out
Up early though I search and roam along this dirty road
Just another traveller taking a long journey home

[Akala]
All this talk of intervention to protect on what is the intention
Same as it ever was the colonial past and present
And more respect for most of the right wingers
Than the paternalistic patronising liberal bigot
[Lowkey]
Release the classics

[Akala & Lowkey]
And reach the masses!

[Hook]x2

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The song made by Lowkey and Akala show the listener the artists inner fear and their inner darkness which although remains hidden still constitutes to the way they rap. Though both artists are generally positive, people believe this to be them at their most negative. Both have performed this live in late 2013 on a rare occasion in which Lowkey came on stage since his hiatus in early 2012.

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May 28, 2012
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