Dave & James Blake – Both Sides Of A Smile Lyrics

Both Sides Of A Smile

Dave & James Blake

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"Both Sides Of A Smile." - Dave & James Blake

Thursday, 22 October 2026, 03:39 pm

Album: We're All Alone In This Together

Track No: 09

And then
The finer details
Who's your Juliette?
What's the dynamic in the situation between the two leads?
You know? I guess we're all just
We're all just, like, looking for a happy ending somewhere
Hey, it's okay, it's okay
I don't care if no one knows my name
Pain, it's all the same, all the same
Even if you think it's all in vain
'Cause I am turning hurt into rose, into rose, into rose
Rose, into rose, into rose, into rose
How could we let it slide?
Hmm
Looking back at our lives
The future's just a lie
We'll be there, you and I
Mmm
On both sides of a smile
Look, you keep the bread all to yourself and you get mould from it
You give a good girl a rose and you get gold from it
Have a child with a rat and you'll get a mouse from it
You give a woman a brick and you'll get a house from it
The first time splitting up always the hardest thing
Love's a film and I'm just flicking through the parts I'm in
I told her I don't wanna argue in this car I'm in
And that's when she hit me with
"Well, I don't get why you would tell me you want me to be your wifey
When you wanna be Romeo
Had me here for the rodeo
I don't believe you when you gas me up and hype me
'Cause you're lusting and these women that you're fuckin' look nothing like me, David
You find asylum in the countries that you fly me
And carry all of your guilt in the designer bags that you buy me, David
I ain't asking you to be someone you wasn't
I just wanna fuck with the person I fell in love with
Got a petite waist, sweet face, I'll find another man
You must have forgotten who the fuck I am
There's plenty **** waiting for chances
Ask me if I'm taken, I say taken for granted
But you know this already
'Cause we've spoken already
Want me to wait 'cause you ain't ready
Nah, we're both in our 20s
I date a man before I wait for a man
This ends here
'Cause I'll be damned if I give a fuckin' loser my best years
Got my own car, own money and my own body
If I show body, this for me, this it ain't for nobody
I'ma change the lock on the door, think I'm a homebody?
You won't have a house to fucking live 'cause you talk but you don't listen
There's a difference in mistakes and a decision, David
The first time was the worst time
It didn't hurt like the second or the third time
She put her life on pause
'Cause I'm turning hurt into rose, into rose, into rose
Rose, into rose, into rose, into rose
How could we let it slide?
Hmm
Looking back at our lives
The future's just a lie
We'll be there, you and I
Mmm
On both sides of a smile
Yeah, I just came to area I grew up in
They can't even see the car, but from the engine, they know it's me
From no fixed abode to the coast of Greece
I'm most at home at the places I ain't supposed to be
I grew up seeing Mummy count pennies
Tryna buy a train ticket, but forget saying "Woe is me"
Now I'm in L.A. with the open sea
They both feel like things I wasn't supposed to see
Used to be my post, we was close
Now we argue to the rhythm of a broken beat
To the beat of a broken heart
Napoleon Bonaparte meets Joan of Arc
We're both fighting the sea, this is Noah's ark
Where lovers with a broken past grow apart
Most things that last have the slowest start
A lot of pain and a lot of tears
The only reason that I lie is 'cause of what I fear
My girl knows that I'm a fan of charity
But there's some information I ain't ever gonna volunteer
I wish that I could pay for my sins with a lump sum
Restore her belief in me with a trust fund
The money can't buy nothing when the love's done
I used to cheat with Americans for a living
I felt nervous every time I got a call from a plus one
It takes years to build when you love one
Two and a half minutes and it's undone
Bought my girl a Birkin, and she told me that these bitches can't chat to her
I'm telling' her they never could
You know you love her when you're doing shit you never would
Come up off of drugs and bank scams
How the fuck you think I got the name Santan?
Run up on me and get a skin tan
Only when you're gone they feel your impact
19, I had dreams of a wedding ring
So focused on running our race
You can ask James Blake, I ain't see the colour in anything
And then the world got darker than it's ever been
Real estate, I buss a smile
International, that's how I'm coming now
Mortgage on the yard like twenty-two hundred
But the rent's got it covered by a country mile
Feels like my luck's been running out
It feels like my luck's been running out
Feels like my luck's been running out
It feels like my luck's been running out
Feels like my luck's been running out
Feels like my luck's been running out
Feels like my luck's been running out
Feels like my luck's been running out

Writer(s): Dave & James Blake.

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