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Professional Smile

from Boost​|​False Doors by Mikel Rouse

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lyrics

Professional Smile

Run around, run around better believe it
Run around, run around better believe it

If I get a run around what do you see?
Another day older and looking at me
A patchwork quilt of equality
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile

If I do the mambo on TV
Democratic adventure for all to see
Be all you can be all you can be
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile

You talk to the TV and it never talks back
You’re dead in life and you’re dead in your tracks

Everyone brings it home
Everyone tags along
Everyone brings the debt to their silent night
Everyone pitches in
Even the ones who win
Taking the road that’s traveled left to right
Everyone burns alive
What if the strong survive?
Better late than never why we fight
Everyone pitches in
Even the ones who win the smile

A popular mandate of timeless lies
Of barely legal computer files
A moneymaker on Warner Time

If I get a run around what do you see?
Another day older and looking at me
A patchwork quilt of society
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile

If I do the mambo on TV
Democratic adventure for all to see
Be all you can be all you can be
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile
It’s a professional smile

Run around, run around better believe it
Run around, run around better believe it

A popular mandate of timeless lies
Of barely legal computer files
A moneymaker on Warner Time

Everyone brings it home
Everyone tags along
Everyone brings the debt to their silent night
Everyone pitches in
Even the ones who win
Taking the road less traveled left to right
Everyone burns alive
What if the strong survive?
Better late than never why we fight
Everyone pitches in
Even the ones who win the smile

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from Boost​|​False Doors, released May 1, 2012

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Mikel Rouse New York, New York

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer and recording artist hailed as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” (NY Times 2002) His works include 25 records, 7 films (including Funding and Music For Minorities), and a trilogy of media operas: Failing Kansas, Dennis Cleveland and The End Of Cinematics. ... more

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