Lyrics to
Make A Smile For Me

This version of Make A Smile For Me was released by Bill Withers in 1974.

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Make a smile for me
Lately I’ve been so lonely
And a smile from you
Might make these blues go away

Stay awhile with me
Can’t you tell I’ve been lonely
And a smile from you
Might make it a nicer day

Close your eyes and dream of a sunny place
Watch the world light up when you smile
Stay with me and smile at me, sunny face
Chase the clouds away with your smile

Close your eyes and dream of a sunny place
Watch the world light up when you smile
Stay with me and smile at me, sunny face
Chase the clouds away with your smile

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Make A Smile For Me, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1974 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to Make A Smile For Me have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Make A Smile For Me if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Make A Smile For Me" means the words set to the music of Make A Smile For Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Make A Smile For Me and the lyrics to Make A Smile For Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Make A Smile For Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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