Smile
Steve Winwood

Just smile, just a smile
Just smile, just a smile
Just smile

Just because the morning's sunny
To say hello, to say good-bye
Maybe something strikes you funny
Or you don't know exactly why

Ain't no reason to try and hide it
A whole lot easier to let it out
First it's playin' with your eyes
Then it's makin' mischief around your mouth

Just smile, just a smile
Just smile, just a smile
Just smile

Lookin' at a sea of smilin' faces
Knowin' we're the same inside
Feelin' good to be together
Feelin' glad to share the ride

See the rainbow, see the baby
Get in the picture with the groom and bride
Holler 'cheese' and face the Polaroid
Show the love you feel inside



Do you work at a job you despise? Do you live with cockroaches? Have you been mugged lately? Did your favorite jeans shrink in the wash? Everyone has problems. It doesn't mean you have to be a sourpuss. After all, the expression you wear on your face is far more important than the clothes you wear on your back. Instead of letting the inside influence the outside, make the outside influence the inside. Act the way you want to feel. If you want to be happy, start now.


Just smile, just a smile

A smile makes someone who's mad not mad
A smile makes someone who's sad not sad
A smile makes good people outta the bad
A smile is an asset you always had

It can bring you back from the end of the world
Pick you up when you feel down
Put you in touch with your fellow man
Take an ugly situation and turn it around

Just smile, just a smile

And now testimonial from former bag lady, Wilma Fox:

I was in the gutter on the wrong side of town
I'd sunk as low as a woman can go
Eating outta garbage cans and sleeping on the ground
And prayin' for a miracle to turn my life around

One day last summer I was down to nuthin'
The air was gritty, the subway was an oven
Classic New York City, everybody shovin'
The crowd was uncouth, gettin' mad, gettin' strange
'Cept the man in the booth, the man makin' change

He looked me in the eye as he handed me a token
He flashed me a smile and a spell was broken
Just a smile, just smile, just a smile, just smile

I bust thru that turnstile, I ran to my train
People still looked hostile but somethin' had changed
My express pulled in, the doors swung wide
And I started to grin as I stepped inside

I smiled as the train pulled outta that station
Sorta tickled by the humor of my own situation
Just a smile, just smile, just a smile, just smile

And my attitude spread to all fellow riders
They looked at each other and threw off those blinders
Eyes that were dead suddenly shone
One by one, they were touched, touched to the bone

As they exited that car, great smiles burst forth
Like the evenin' star, like breezes from the north
Then one by one, they all departed
And I saw what the man in the change booth had started

Just smile, just a smile


A smile is a very infectious thing. It spreads joy. It's a sign of caring. Success or failure is caused by your mental attitude, not your mental capacity. Yes, a smile can pick you up outta the gutter, make you prosperous. Now I take taxis. You just have to smile once and the whole world will smile with you. And remember that old Chinese proverb: Man without smiling face must not open shot. Paste that in your hat, honey. SMILE.


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Pretty Woman   One & Only Man   One And Only Man   One More Morning   Opportunity   Other Shore   Paper Sun   Paper Sun [Album Version]   Pearly Queen   Pepsi Cola Jingle   Phoenix Rising   Please Do Something   Plenty Lovin'   Presence Of The Lord   Put On Your Dancin' Shoes   Put on Your Dancing Shoes   Raging Sea   Rainmaker   Rambling on My Mind   Reach For The Light   Real Love   Riding High   Rock & Roll Stew   Rock And Roll Stew   Roll Right Stones   Roll With It   Roll With It Baby   Rollright Stones   Running On   Sad & Deep As You   Sad & Deep as You   Sad And Deep As You   Sea Of Joy   Searchin'   Second Hand Woman   Second-Hand Woman   Secrets   Shanghai Noodle Factory   She Put The Hurt On Me   Shining Song   Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory (Remastered)   Shootout At The Fantasy Factory   Shouldn't Have Took More Than You Gave   Silvia   Silvia (Who Is She?)   Since I Met You Baby   Sittin' & Thinkin'   Sittin' And Thinkin'   Sleeping in the Ground   Slowdown Sundown   Smiling Phases   Solitude   Some Kinda Woman   Somebody Help Me   Someone Like You   Something New   Space Requiem   Space Song   Spanish Dancer   Split Decision   Spy In The House Of Love   State of Grace   Stellar   Stevie's Blues   Still In The Game   Stranger To Himself   Strong Love   Take It As It Comes   Take It To The Final Hour   Take This Hurt Off Me   Talking Back To The Night   Tell the Truth   That's All   That's Love   The Finer Things   The Low Spark of High - Heeled Boys   The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys   The Morning Side   There's a River   This Hammer   This Train Won't Stop   Time Is Here   Time Is Running Out   Together Till The End Of Time   Under My Thumb   Uninspired   Utterly Simple   Vacant Chair   Vagabond Virgin   Valerie   Wake Me up on Judgement Day   Wake Me up on Judgment Day   Walking In The Wind   Walking On   Watch Your Step   We're A Fade, You Missed This   We're All Looking   Well All Right   When A Man Loves A Woman   When I Come Home   When The Eagle Flies   While There's A Candle Burning   While You See A Chance   Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring (Remastered)   Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring?   Who Painted The Moon Black   Why Can't We Live Together   Will Powers   Winner/loser   Winner\/Loser   Withering Tree   You Can All Join In   You Must Believe Me   You'll Keep on Searching   Your Silence Is Your Song

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