SMILING PHASES                Traffic (Steve Winwood)



Do yourself a favour, wake up to your mind,

Life is what you make it, see if it's still your kind.

Get yourself some cover, give before you take.

You'll find out the hard way, soon you're gonna break.


Chorus:

Smiling phases, showing traces.

Keep on when they bump you, keep on smiling through and through.

You'll be a trace on the face of their faces as they sentence you.


You don't need a lawyer when you're in a fix.
Someone gets the pay-off, your friends have pulled off, quits.
But happiness is something that you just can't buy.
Grow up to the truth girl, you're living with a lie.

Chorus 2:
Your boy Barry brings you flowers.
You can't turn him off, girl, he's been waiting there for hours
And you can still see the look on his face as you slide down the rail.