When I looked around the room,
I saw only happy faces, and
When I looked around the room,
I saw only happy faces.
Happy faces.
When I looked around the room,
I saw only happy faces.

I looked to my left and there was
a crowd of people
I looked to my left and there was
a crowd of people
They had their heads back and
their mouth open
and pretty teeth and they were laughing
(ha, ha, ha, ha)

They were laughing and
they were not genuine and they
were self conscious, self conscious,
They were laughing and
they were not genuine and they
were self conscious.

It's as if they were living their lives and they knew

they were on television, or in a movie
they knew that they were pretty and young

and they were
having fun in public
and that everybody's looking at 'em
and so they laughed like this (hah, hah, hah, ha)
They're so phony, the phony sons-o-bitches
phony sons-o-bitches

I looked around the room.