Smile

SMILE

Years in the making

Countless hours bleeding your fingertips

To get to this

The stranger the tunings

The more you appreciate where it all went wrong

Four chords

Play them to me

And I’ll sing

They’ll sing along too

When everybody loves you

Everybody needs you

You can stand up tall

When everybody loves you

Everybody wants you

You can laugh out loud

And smile about it

Lost the connection

Empty roads don’t lead to happiness

Just worthlessness

Narrowing choices

And ageing decisions

Now break the man you were

One repeat ‘till the coda

And then, you can be still again

All you wanted to be was the best you could

And so you should

But all your believing

Spelt ‘never achieving’

And ‘so misunderstood’

Four chords

Play them to me

And I’ll sing

They’ll sing along too