check on your friends

Kelsea Ballerini

Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones crying when they re home and it s late
The ones at the life of the party
Up with the DJ, up on the drugs that they take
Pretty in the photo for sure
Pretty in the app, pretty not good at being alone
Struggling and nobody knows
Cause she s so good
All glittery when she picks up the phone, so

Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones crying, mm
Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones dying

Funny with self-deprecating jokes
That she s making, hopes that they take it at face
Sparking her eyes like an actress
Hiding the fact that her heart s all up in flames
Pretty in the photo for sure
Pretty far from the girl that she was
When she was twenty four
Another plane to Paris for the allure
Deep down terrified of going home and shutting the door

Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones crying, mm
Check on your friends with a smile
When they re checking out

Check on your friends
and your lovers fathers and mothers
Check on yourself, okay?
We all got the downers and uppers, yeah
we all wonder
But it s better if you stay
It can snow in the summer for sure
But when it s coming down real bad
baby, I gotta cope
Struggling, I see it, I know
You can take the cape
and the make-up off, let it pop

Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones crying, mm
Check on your friends that are smiling
They re the ones dying

Check on your friends
Check on your friends
Check on your friends
When they re home and it s late
Check on your friends
Check on your friends
Check on your friends
Check on yourself, okay?

And I ll do it all again
See the self I am, from the things that I want