Everybody Smiles in Photographs

And if we judged the world on FB and Instagram

I guess the world would be a happy place

And if we judge the world on FOX news and the New York Times

I guess the world wouldn't be so great, a disgrace

And if we judged the world on photographs

Everybody is smiling

And if we judge the world on the holocaust

Everybody is dying

And if we judged the world on Twitter and TMZ

Everybody is f*cking crazy

And if we judged the world and 

we just looked at you and me

I guess the world is crazy

And if we judged the world by looking in the mirror

I guess we wouldn't be able to take the sadness

And if we judged the world on Harvard and Penn

Everybody is using drugs, and 

just putting too much pressure on themselves

And if we judged the world by you and me

I guess the world is irrational

And if we judged the world by alcoholics and potheads
I guess everybody just indulges

And if we judged the world on Einstein and Schrodinger

I guess the world doesn't even exist

And if we judged the world just looking at the roses

Then everything would be fine and dandy

And if we judged the world on all the strangers

I guess we'd smile and take their candy

And if we judged the world on all the homeless people

I guess we'd cry ourselves to sleep

And if we judged the world on all the soldiers
I guess we'd think most people have discipline

And if we judge the world on Rock and Roll
I guess we'd think everybody takes everything for granted

But if we just stopped judging the world

and looked at ourselves in the mirror

and we looked into the eyes of our children

and we believed the world can be a better place tomorrow.

If we just believed

If we had faith in our fellow man

but no, we judge the world based off of MTV, 

the real world, road rules, rappers, athletes

we're just so busy judging

so busy placing blame

too bad lady liberty is blind

I guess i'm so f*cked up that I forgot

or too young to realize

cause if we just looked at all the parties and 

all the balloons and all the people

what would we even see

if we just looked at ourselves in the mirror

and stopped acting as if

would we realize

that the biggest joke

the biggest joke is on me

if we just stopped for a second

and we closed our eyes

and we tried to comprehend

could we?

we couldn't

we can never understand

the horror

the tragedy

the sadness

the holocausts that take place everyday

but what do i know

you're busy judging me

and I'm busy putting too much pressure on myself

just putting too much pressure on themselves

right because that's what we like to

just put all this pressure on ourselves

like diamonds

but we're like diamonds in the sky

but what do i know

you're busy judging me

and i'm busy trying to change the world

when i should just be worrying about myself

who knows

maybe god knows

maybe god can tell me why

maybe one day he'll tell me why

but one day i'll be gone

one day you'll be gone

but the world

well who knows

maybe the world will still be turning

maybe the music will still be playing

who knows

i asked an angel in my dream

and she just stared back at me

poof 

she's gone

i guess it's like that

nobody will ever understand

life is what you make of it

life is what you choose to be

life is whatever you want it to be

if you want life to be a bitch

then get high everyday

pretend like Jesus did it

who cares

but if you want to make the most of it

or you want to make the worst of it

it doesn't matter to me

or so I say

i like to think

it should only matter to you

and nobody will ever understand me

but i never told you to understand

i just want you to realize that 

everybody smiles in pictures

so don't judge the world by 

facebook and instagram

twitter and tweets

judge the world by the scars and the regrets

the scars and the regrets

because life is one big mistake

well not really but...

so make the most of it while you're still here

imagine a world with no mirrors

imagine a world with no photographs

would you like the reflection staring back at you?

would you like it

would you love it

would you put no one above you

i stopped asking the world for love

because its a cold world

with cold wars

world war 1, world war 2

1,2,3

revolutions everyday

but we just keep on keeping on

we just perpetuate the past

perpetuate the future

pretend like life's a present

preparing for the future

picking meticulously

trying to pick out the patterns

that have some meaning

that have something in them

all these objects that surround

all these places that i go

all these people that i see

it's not even people

it's just faces

it's just eyes

just eyes

staring back at me

rarely

just eyes

rolling away

rolling in the distance

rolling in the deep

rolling eyes

wasting my time

but time you enjoy wasting

well that's not wasted time

right

they say you gotta know when to hold em

you gotta know when to fold em

you gotta know when to take them for a ride

but what kind of ride is this

a drive by

the way i live my life

one moment at a time

one second

one instant

life's not filled with a book of faces

and instagrams

instantaneous reactions

instantaneous solutions

in an instant we expect the world

in a 140 characters we expect

tweets and twitters

something truly profound

but the world is round

and i lost touch right?

i'm floating somewhere off the ground

but i feel so grounded

like a circuit

like a system

like something you would never understand

life is filled with sadness

life is filled with pain

life is filled with the bitter

so you can understand the better

Cause if we judged the world on Facebook and Instagram

I guess the world would be a happy place

but the world isn't a happy place

blind optimism can only take you so far

in the world of the blind

we think the one eyed man is king

nah it's worse than that

cause in my world

the world is blind

and the blind man is king

oh man 

i stopped living life

looking for jewels and royals

cause im not impressed

i get upset

not depressed

as i watch the world rewind and regress

but i digress as i often do

because if we judged the world on facebook and instagram

then the world wouldn't make much sense

because everybody smiles in photos and photographs

but the world is so complex

it's so much more than graphics on a screen

so much more than windows and lions and linux

the world is so complex

but we think it's so simple

and its a complex problem trying to simplify things 

no matter if they are simple or complex

but i digress as i often do

cause if we judged the world on facebook and instagram

well you know everybody smiles in photos and photographs