Name: Plastic Smiles
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Channel: Patrick Olson
Description: Free MP3 download. Piano based tune. The aux. percussion might be slightly annoying. My bad.

Plastic Smiles

Patrick Olson

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Piano based tune. The aux. percussion might be slightly annoying. My bad.

Patrick Olson

Singer songwriter from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

I'm a songwriter born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta. I play bass for my band, This Machine Kills Fascists. My music is pretty much the most important thing in my life.

Song Info

Genre

Alternative • Alternative General

Charts

#3,811 in subgenre Peak #67

Charts

Peak #219

Author

Patrick Olson

Rights

2007, by Patrick Olson

Uploaded

November 10, 2007

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44

Story behind the song

I originally wrote this song on guitar.  I recorded it for a music technology assignment, using Garageband.  Normally I'd go for a more simplistic sound but we had to use a certain number of elements.  The song is about finding the balance between your personal and professional lives.

Lyrics

Eyes forward
Hands gripping
At ten and two
O' clock positions

Rain washes
Your windshield
As you begin to
Plaster on your face

But your plastic smiles
Evaporate

[chorus]
When the night comes
The night comes
You crawl in bed alone
The night comes
The night comes
We've all got something bottled up inside

"Well at least
I'm unique"
That's what you tell yourself

You might say
We're all snowflakes
When it comes down to it
They're just frozen water
Condensed and crystalized

And they're the same thing 
When they evaporate

[chorus]

Life wasn't supposed to be like this
This isn't what you imagined as a kid
Working just to live and living just to die
So put on a brave face, dry your swollen eyes
Clear your throat and go back to work

Your plastic smiles
Evaporate

[chorus]

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