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?