Smile or Frown (feat. Julia Fordham)

We’re only half full but there’s love in this crowd

Pull up the tables and gather around

Where Flannigans once stood it’s apartments now

People will pay for them somehow

We will both pay for this somehow

But nobody knows in this town, is it a smile or frown?

We’ve had so much time to think about it

But we always just leave it til last

We’ve all held our tongues with a wink about it

Surely our love isn’t past

Oh tell me we’ve still got a chance,

Tell me why love shouldn’t last

Nobody can in this town

The question goes round and round,

When you lift up your eyes from the ground

Is it a smile or frown?

Holding, forgetting and holding again

Good times are coming but can’t say when

Lovers got lost just a moment in time

Everyone longs for it somehow

Most of it seems kind of dumb now

Well we’ve danced so close to the brink of it

But we always step back from the fall

Is it one last waltz or one last drink to it?

Surely our love isn’t past

Surely we’ve still got a chance

Are we drifting down two different paths

But nobody knows in our town

Is it a smile or frown?