[Title: AUTHENTIC SMILES] {Spoken} He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me. [Instrumental] [Title: AUTHENTIC SMILES] [Intro — Instrumental] [Female] Authentic. [Male] Not forced. [Female] Testimony. [Male] Not theater. [Both] PLAY THE RECORD. [Verse 1] Darkness don't flinch at a painted grin, A borrowed face, a practiced hymn. They copy the teeth. They copy the pose. Stand in the road in another man's clothes. But open the mouth with the Record inside— Tell what Jesus hath done and the mask can't hide. [Pre-Chorus] [Female] Not theater. [Male] TESTIMONY. [Female] Not a costume. [Male] CHRIST IN ME. [Both] PLAY THE RECORD! [Chorus] AUTHENTIC SMILES! YOU CAN'T PAINT THIS JOY! No borrowed face. No practiced pose. WE KNOW THE ONE WHOM OUR TESTIMONY SHOWS! PLAY THE RECORD! WHAT HATH GOD GIVEN? ETERNAL LIFE! AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON! That's why we sing! That's why we move! THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! THE RECORD IS TRUE! AUTHENTIC SMILES! JESUS IS GLORY! WE'RE STILL DANCING TO THE SAME OLD STORY! [Instrumental] [Verse 2] Horse and the ass in the gold of the sun. Truth on the breastplate. His Word on the tongue. Accusations behind us, lost in the dust. Same old questions— same answer in us. CALVARY IS OUR VICTORY. Nothing to defend. Nothing to prove. The Shepherd goes before us. WE FOLLOW. WE MOVE. Every single day. Every single night. Same Book. Same Gospel. Jesus Christ. [Call and Response] [Female] PLAY THE RECORD! [Male] ETERNAL LIFE! [Female] WHERE IS THE LIFE? [Male] IN HIS SON! [Both] AUTHENTIC SMILES! THE RECORD IS TRUE! [Chorus] AUTHENTIC SMILES! YOU CAN'T PAINT THIS JOY! No borrowed face. No practiced pose. WE KNOW THE ONE WHOM OUR TESTIMONY SHOWS! PLAY THE RECORD! WHAT HATH GOD GIVEN? ETERNAL LIFE! AND THIS LIFE IS IN HIS SON! That's why we sing! That's why we move! THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! THE RECORD IS TRUE! AUTHENTIC SMILES! JESUS IS GLORY! WE'RE STILL DANCING TO THE SAME OLD STORY! [Dance Instrumental] [PLAY THE RECORD] [Verse 3 — Female] Used to teach dance class with vinyl and a smile. Needle on the groove, feet finding the floor. Five, six, seven, eight— MOVE. Now PLAY THE RECORD— hear what God hath done. "And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son." [Male] "He that hath the Son hath life;" [Female] The old record turned and the dancers moved. Now the Record is the Son and the testimony moves. [Both] JESUS IS GLORY. [Dance Break] [Female] PLAY THE RECORD! [Male] ETERNAL LIFE! [Female] WHERE IS THE LIFE? [Male] IN HIS SON! [Both] THE RECORD STILL PLAYS! [Verse 4] My body moves to the life Jesus hath given me. Not a theory in the mouth. A pulse in the clay. You can hide an intention behind a copied smile. Dress the old man in a Sunday mile. But— "The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly." No borrowed glory. No manufactured light. LOOKING UNTO JESUS— [Both] AND DANCING THROUGH THE NIGHT. [Instrumental] [Bridge] [Male] No painted smile. [Female] No borrowed face. [Male] No manufactured joy can imitate grace. [Female] We ain't smiling because the road is easy. [Male] We smile because— [Both] THE GRAVE IS EMPTY! [Male] We ain't dancing because the flesh got strong. [Female] "He hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God:" [Both] A NEW SONG! A NEW SONG! PLAY THE RECORD! [Instrumental Rise] [THE STUDIO DOOR / THE NARROW WAY] [Verse 5 — Female] The studio door closed years ago. No more class clock. No more rented floor. Jesus opened the narrow way— And here we are, still making songs, still testifying of what Jesus hath done. Amazing. Not because the old room came back. Because the Door walked us through. [Male] "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." [Both] CLOSED STUDIO. OPEN WAY. SAME GLORY. THE RECORD STILL PLAYS. [Instrumental] [Verse 6] [Male] "For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ." [Female] Sure foundation under the hooves. [Male] Shepherd out front of the two. [Female] Day and night. [Male] Same Gospel. [Female] Same Lord. [Both] HE FINISHED. HE GOES BEFORE. WE FOLLOW. [Breakdown] [Female] The Queen of the South came seeking. [Male] The Father opened her ears. [Female] She sought Wisdom. [Male] A greater than Solomon is here. [Both] WE AIN'T PLAYING THE SHIPWRECK GAME. Not looking at ourselves. Not measuring flesh. Not rebuilding what died at the cross. LOOKING UNTO JESUS. AUTHOR. FINISHER. [Female] PLAY THE RECORD! [Male] ETERNAL LIFE! [Female] WHERE IS THE LIFE? [Male] IN HIS SON! THE RECORD DOES NOT CHANGE. [Final Chorus] AUTHENTIC SMILES! YOU CAN'T PAINT THIS JOY! No borrowed face! No practiced pose! WE KNOW THE ONE WHOM OUR TESTIMONY SHOWS! PLAY THE RECORD! WHAT HATH GOD GIVEN? JESUS
