Byron Henderson - Keep Smiling (A Beautiful Life) lyrics

A peace of mind
Live on the edge of sobriety when I rhyme
Leave it to me to encourage
People to never decline
Knowledge is power and money
Is poisonous every time
Look at my life and decide
Whether you taught me enough
I’ll write your name in the sky
Before we met I was rough, around the edges
That was embedded at birth
Freedom wasn’t relatable, my societal quirks
But look at what I became you’re
The root of my change
Things could have been better
But who do I have to blame?
This is for every one of you
That I met on the way
Find someone or something you
Love until you decay
See, I’ve got a lot of guts
I’ll show them to you today
Y’all know my ventilation is
Something they’ll never take
As long as I’m being honest
I ain’t trying to hear a thing
Do you want a pretty lie
Or truth embodied by faith?
Welcome to my reality, actually my escape
Don’t worry I won’t ever forget
The promise we made
I remember specifically Marina
It was the day I last saw you alive
And the second to last words
You would say were… (I love you)
I love you more and I swear if I ever fall
I’m getting right back up
My whole life I had to knock down walls
The most important decision I could have
Made was overcoming my own hesitation
But instead, I was afraid
Why was I afraid to lose you when
Every day could be my last?
It was strange, cause you were afraid too
And I knew it wasn’t phase anymore
Manifested into something that I
Just can’t ignore
Your progression was reason to keep smiling
Never mind all the violence
Seven years in the making
I wonder how I’m surviving
Ain’t no telling if Heaven is
Similar to what I’m in
Gold chains, Ferraris never defined Byron
I took a couple of L’s, but I won at life
Must have thought she had my number
Never wanted strife
You’ll be proud of me for surviving
When it’s said and done
What’s your body without a soul, a dead one

You had one of the best smiles
Ever if I had to give
Credit, you were the first person
To make living worth it
And I just want to thank you
You helped me a lot
I remember when we could just
Talk about everything like, You’d talk about
How you miss your dad and how you wanted
Me to meet him funny thing is
That’s how all of this came about you looked
Me like everything weighing you down had
Been lifted i remember it
Like it was yesterday you said
"As long as you live
Keep smiling because it
Brightens everybody’s day
Whether you know it or not…"