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Artist: David Gray
Canonical path: /david-gray/smile-like-you-mean-it
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Smile Like You Mean It
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Smile Like You Mean It
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Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
Save some face
You know you've only got one
Change your ways
While you're young
Boy, one day you'll be a man
Oh girl, he'll help you understand
Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
Looking back
At sunsets on the East side
We lost track of the time
Dreams aren't what they used to be
Some things sat by so carelessly
Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
And someone is calling my name
From the back of the restaurant
And someone is playing a game
In the house that I grew up in
And someone will drive her around
Down the same streets that I did
On the same streets that I did
Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
Smile like you mean it
Oh no, oh no, no no
Oh no, oh no, no no
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David Gray performs "Smile Like You Mean It", and this lyric page sits inside the David Gray catalog on LyroVerse.
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