[Intro] [dark electronic pulse] [dual electro fiddles — high/low call and response] [low-tuned grunge guitar slowly swells] Pretty little smile Pretty little lie Build another personality For whoever walks by [fiddle stab] Plastic people. [DROP — huge distorted guitar + electro bass] [Verse 1] You change your face To fit the room Borrow a smile Borrow a truth New best friend Every night New enemy By morning light You call it charm I call it need You feed on every soul you meet [dual fiddle attack] [Pre-Chorus] You want the light But can't create it Want the love So you imitate it Every good thing That you touch You find a way To fuck it up [GUITAR SLAM] [Chorus] PLASTIC PEOPLE PLASTIC SMILES Manufactured personalities Changing all the time Take and take Till nothing's left Then blame somebody else Every piece-of-shit bully Eventually meets themselves Spit your poison Waste your breath We're still fucking standing yet You can't fake this You can't break this REAL PEOPLE REAL CONNECTION That's the energy we make [Post-Chorus] [dual electro fiddles trading lines] You take— WE MAKE You break— WE CREATE [Instrumental] [heavy syncopated grunge riff] [fiddle 1 mirrors guitar] [fiddle 2 harmonizes underneath] [short aggressive fiddle/guitar duel] [Verse 2] Good people Doing their best Already carrying Enough on their chest Then you arrive Dragging your storm Turning kindness Into war You thought breaking Someone's spirit Would somehow Make you strong [hard stop] You were wrong. [dual fiddle run into chorus] [Chorus] PLASTIC PEOPLE PLASTIC SMILES Manufactured personalities Changing all the time Take and take Till nothing's left Then blame somebody else Every piece-of-shit bully Eventually meets themselves Spit your poison Waste your breath We're still fucking standing yet You can't fake this You can't break this REAL PEOPLE REAL CONNECTION That's the energy we make [Bridge] [drums drop out] [clean distorted guitar ambience] [one lonely electro fiddle] Here's the part You never learned Good people Don't stay broken We find each other Piece by piece No fake smiles No make-believe You built your world By tearing down We built ours By reaching out [second fiddle enters] You pushed us down WE FUCKING ROSE [full band explosion] [Final Chorus] FUCK YOUR POISON FUCK YOUR GAMES Fuck the hundred different faces Hiding underneath your name You take and take WE GIVE IT BACK Not the hate— THE GOOD YOU LACK Every time You tried dividing us WE PULLED EACH OTHER CLOSER You can't fake this You can't buy it You can't bully it away REAL PEOPLE REAL CONNECTION POSITIVE ENERGY THAT'S HOW WE FUCKING WIN [Outro] [huge dual electro fiddle melody over crushing grunge riff] You take— WE MAKE You break— WE CREATE You hate— WE CONNECT [everything drops except one guitar] Pretty little smile Pretty little lie Keep building personalities... [dual fiddle sting] We'll build a fucking life. [HARD STOP]
