Smile (feat. Twista & Maxwell)

I hide my tears from the crowd

By smiling

(Maxwell)

I'm even smiling for me

Smiling so you know why you can't hurt me

Smiling for something

I'm hiding from falling

Now what you know about what smiles are all about

(The Alchemist)

Gotta keep moving away

When there's so much strength to the fall

Gotta keep food on my plate

Gotta keep plaques on my wall

Gotta keep proving I'm great

I'm so sick of it all

Gotta keep a smile on my face

Even if I slip and I fall

Gotta have a mask for the pain

If you wanna master the game

I was only after the props

Really I was never after the fame

I was never after the range

Now I'm like a rat in a race

Always trying to catch up the chase

Feeling like I'm trapped in a maze

Never let 'em see me when I'm down

Never let 'em see me with a frown

Even when the game beat me to the ground

I get up and go another round

Lock it up, and so another town

Break it up and roll another pound

Change it up and go another route

Flip and make a whole another sound

Like the way I did on "Hold U Down"

Hey, you know the kid on "Hold U Down" ?

Never knew the name, you know it now

Never knew the face, you know it now

Look at all this cake I'm holding now

Think another way to throw it now

F*cking everyday I blow it now

Gotta get away I know it now

(Maxwell)

I'm even smiling for me

Smiling so you know why you can't hurt me

Smiling for something

I'm hiding from falling

Now what you know about what smiles are all about

(Twista)

Gotta get it how you gotta get it

That's what's up to family, I'm that committed

The only way that we can all get the cake

Is if we get up, how we got to split it

If you got a verse you better spit it

If you see a job you better get it

And if you can hoop stay on yo pivot

'Cause the truth is this is life you gotta live it

Try not to travel down the wrong road

So that when your legacy is told

You was known to be a hustla who provided for what's family and did it cold

Cock the obstacles and the challenges

Make a competition 'bout of this

Spit it for my homie Alchemist

Hold up let me find another style for this

Come-with-the-energy-making-me-wanna-eru PT

Sippin'-a-lil-of-remy-up-out-of-my-cup

Come-with-the-literal-cush-I'm-taking-a- puff

Alchemist-come-with-the-rhythm-and-now-I -be-f*ckin'-it-up

Rap-in-another-capella-we-gonna-be-doing -the-sh*t-we-be-doing

And-I'm-killing-I'm-breaking-them-off-wi th-a choir

I-got-the-remedy-that'd-be-filling-my-po cket-with-paper

I'm-gonna-be-tellin-the-haters-that-don' t-stop

Until-I'm-on-top-of-the-world I stay focused

'Til I'm gone, know what to be ferocious

Make your body move like law

Make the cane move like Moses

Make them wanna move like a shark

Trees move like a summer breeze

Smile in your face tell you to grind hard 'til you get you one of these

(Maxwell)

I'm even smiling for me

Smiling so you know why you can't hurt me

Smiling for something

I'm hiding from falling

Now what you know about what smiles are all about

I hide my tears from the crowd

By smiling

I go out and spend my money

So they can see me smiling