Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth

  

Lyrics to Smiling Faces Somethings by Undisputed Truth

Published on Apr 19, 2014

Smiling faces sometimes pretend to be your friend
Smiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

The truth is in the eyes
Cause the eyes don't lie, amen
Remember a smile is just
A frown turned upside down
My friend let me tell you
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth, uh
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
Beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
I'm telling you [to beware]
Beware of the pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Jealousy (jealousy)
Misery (misery)
Envy

I tell you, you can't see behind smiling faces
Smiling faces sometimes they don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
(Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes)
I'm telling you to beware, beware of the handshake
That hides the snake
Listen to me now, beware
Beware of that pat on the back
It just might hold you back
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes
They don't tell the truth
Smiling faces, smiling faces
Tell lies and I got proof

Your enemy won't do you no harm
Cause you'll know where he's coming from
Don't let the handshake and the smile fool ya
Take my advice I'm only trying' to school ya¹

The lyrics to this song were written in 1971 according to the article I read about it, this very song, in Wikipedia 2.

 

Now the psychology contained therein, in the song, which goes back way further.   Let’s take a look at the Bible, the Old Testament to be more specific. Let’s narrow it down some more.  Let’s take a trip to Proverbs 7.

 

Let’s see what the Amplified Classic Bible has to say about people betraying other people.

Proverbs 7  - Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

7

 My son, keep my words; lay up within you, my commandments [for use when needed] and treasure them.

² Keep my commandments and live, and keep my law and teaching as the apple (the pupil) of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Say to skillful and godly Wisdom, You are my sister, and regard understanding or insight as your intimate friend—

⁵ That they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adventuress who flatters with and makes smooth her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ And among the simple (empty-headed and empty hearted) ones, I perceived among the youths a young man void of good sense,

⁸ Sauntering through the street near the [loose woman’s] corner, and he went the way to her house

⁹ In the twilight, in the evening; night black and dense was falling [over the young man’s life].

¹⁰ And behold, there met him a woman, dressed as a harlot and sly and cunning of heart.

¹¹ She is turbulent and willful; her feet stay not in her house;

¹² Now in the streets, now in the marketplaces, she sets her ambush at every corner.

¹³ So she caught him and kissed him and with impudent face, she said to him,

¹⁴ Sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; this day I paid my vows.

¹⁵ So I came forth to meet you [that you might share with me the feast from my offering]; diligently I sought your face, and I have found you.

¹⁶ I have spread my couch with rugs and cushions of tapestry, with striped sheets of fine linen of Egypt.

¹⁷ I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁸ Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us console and delight ourselves with love.

¹⁹ For the man are not at home; he is gone on a long journey;

²⁰ He has taken a bag of money with him and will come home at the day appointed [at the full moon].

²¹ With much justifying and enticing argument she persuades him; with the allurements of her lips she leads him [to overcome his conscience and his fears] and forces him along.

²² Suddenly he [yields and] follows her reluctantly like an ox moving to the slaughter, like one in fetters going to the correction [to be given] to a fool or ^[a]like a dog enticed by food to the muzzle

²³ Till a dart [of passion] pierces and inflames his vitals; then like a bird fluttering straight into the net [he hastens], not knowing that it will cost him his life.

²⁴ Listen to me now, therefore, O you sons, and be attentive to the words of my mouth.

²⁵ Let not your heart incline toward her ways do not stray into her paths.

²⁶ For she has cast down many wounded; indeed, all her slain are a mighty host.

²⁷ Her house is the way to Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead), going down to the chambers of death. ²

 

  

¹ "Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth". 2017. YouTube.  Accessed August 17, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeNA14-P2C4#action=share.

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²   Bible Gateway passage: Proverbs 7 - Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

"Bible Gateway Passage: Proverbs 7 - Amplified Bible, Classic Edition". 2017. Bible Gateway. Accessed August 17, 2017. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+7&version=AMPC.

Blogger's Words; Confessions to Make

What I get out of all this above is the realization that human nature is downright sinful, mine included. 

No wonder it took Jesus’s blood and death to redeem us from the curse of the law.  That law doesn’t save us. It does hold up a mirror to us as we really are. 

No wonder proud arrogant people, the kind of person I once was, and still, unfortunately, lapse into, hate the Word of God.  It disrobes them to the light.  And the more we humans hate it, the more desperately we need it.

Youthful Indiscretions

I’ve been that young lad in that book of Proverbs 7.  When I was young, a teenager still, 

I went to bed with older women, some of them wives. I slept with married women. 

I also came close to getting caught and killed by the husband of one of them when I was in my early thirties.

Looking Back from Age 58

The only difference between that guy in Proverbs and me is that I lived to tell about it and that guy probably got himself killed soon afterward.

Warnings to the Young

This thing of getting laid with the wives of other guys is no joke.  You can get caught and get killed.

And I probably shook hands with some of those women’s husbands when I wasn't screwing their wives – just like in the song Smiling Faces Sometimes.  

We ain't changed one damned bit, have we, now?

History of AIDS Infections: Cautionary Historical Tale from 1986

Here's my anecdote, my debut. When I was a teenager and later a twenty-something-year-old lad, nothing was more important to me than getting laid. In the late 1970s, I got laid a lot, about between five to ten times per month. Later on, I didn't get so much sex but loved it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is about history but more than just about history, it's the warnings that history has to offer.

Here's the tale:

I read the article in a Spanish language local news magazine that a friend gave me back in the summer of 1986. 

A certain young man named Julio was about to graduate from medical school and wanted to go out and party.  So he dressed well and went to a night club. 

While there, a gorgeous, 10 looking woman made eyes at him and smiled.  So he took her out to the dance floor. Afterward, they got better acquainted at a table over some drinks.  They danced some more and started making out, french kissing.

They left together to a motel for a hot night of sexual release.

He didn't use protection and she didn't protest.  RED FLAG there. Ignored.

They spent their bodies writhing on that bed and when it was all over, he was so tired that he fell asleep.  The dame left a while later.

At about 5:30 AM or six, he woke up all alone.

He checked to see if she'd stolen his rolex watch and his wallet with credit cards, etc.

Nothing. It was all there jus like he had left it when he took his clothes off.

But now, happy as a lark that nothing was gone, he noticed light coming from the bathroom of that motel room.

He wondered if she was still there like taking a shower or something. He knocked on the door. No answer. He opened it and entered.

Shock waves hit poor Julio in the face. Slowly he collapsed to his knees and held his face in his hands.  

His sexual conquest, his glorious feat of conquering the best looking woman in that club now became his horror.

He looked up again.

He stared in despair at the bathroom mirror with that message written in lipstick:

"WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF AIDS !" 

A year or two after reading that story, I went dancing myself but later that night I went home alone. No sex.

A woman I took to the dance floor told me she actually knew the guy in that story and that he was already dying.

Reading a story like this one is in some ways like reading history.

It's almost like a warning that says: "Revolutions devour (Eat and Swallow) their own children.  You go messing where you shouldn't be and get mixed up with the wrong crowd and you can lose your head.

I wasn't so eager to go get laid after reading that story in that magazine.  And I sure wouldn't go getting mixed up in some revolution and I avoid bad people like the plague.

You can get a whole lot of good wisdom from learning your history - starting with keeping yourself alive, for one.   Well, this was just one tiny little anecdote that metaphorically links the history of someone who played Russian roulette sexually with other histories of others who stayed alive and otehrs who perished.


Do yourself a favor, a big one.  Learn history. Read the posts that will be getting published in this blog and then go research them in other sources.  You can save your own skin many times by staying informed about the past.