If you do anything in your life, if you try to break away from a toxic environment or a dysfunctional family, others are going to take it personally. They will gossip about you and try to break you to bring you to heal. It is shocking at first when people who say they love you turn against you. Surviving a smear campaign is possible. As long as you stay adhered to the truth and don’t let them convince you otherwise.
If you can be man enough, you will be able to withstand it. If what they are saying is not true, it shouldn’t matter. But if they are convincing others of things that are not true, that is where it can get heartbreaking. You will lose friends and family, but only the weak ones. And once the dust has settled, you will have a few less people around you, but those people are worth keeping around.
Pairs well with PROJECTION
SMEAR LYRICS
walk into a room
feel the tension in the air
whispers behind backs
judgemental stares
they say they’re worried
but they don’t really care
telling tales about you
when you’re not there
friendly dinners
laced with spiteful smiles
bitter tongues serving gossip in piles
their tales are shadows running miles
you’ve been found guilty
without a trial
they will
smear you with rumors
paint you with lies
so don’t bow down
to the heartless guise
you are a phoenix
and from the ashes you’ll rise
above the petty games
and the deadly ties
oh-hoh
tales spun in the fabric of deceit
words sharp as daggers
but don’t retreat
feeling the winds of
a false conceit
stay steady on the path
don’t admit defeat
so you’re name’s been tarnished
reputation at stake
a spectacle for the
hungry gossip snake
and even though it feels
your heart will break
the truth of your soul
your spirit
they can’t break
smear you with rumors
paint you with lies
so don’t bow down (so don’t talk to)
to the heartless guise (their secret spies)
you are a phoenix
and from the ashes you’ll rise
above the petty games
and the deadly ties
oh-hoh
they can try to burn you down
in that rumor mill town
their lies are weightless
don’t wear that crown (don’t wear that crown]
in the eye of the storm
you’ll drown if you conform
in the face of a smear campaign
just don’t back down
and say
smear me around
smear me around
smear me around
draw my name across the town
smear me
smear me
smear me around
all around
spread my name across the town
so smear me
smear me around (please smear me)
smear you with rumors
paint you with lies
so don’t bow down
to the heartless guise
you are a phoenix
and from the ashes you’ll rise
above the petty games
and the deadly ties
oh-hoh
so go ahead
let them smear your name (let them smear your name]
don’t play their twisted
hurtful game (hurtful game)
you’ll be stronger after
won’t be the same (won’t be the same)
in their failed smear campaign (in the failed smear campaign)
you claim your fame
