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Your Smiling Face

This version of Your Smiling Face was released by James Taylor in 1977.

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Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself because I love you, yes, I do.
And when you give me that pretty little pout, it turns me inside out.
There’s something about you, baby, I don’t know.

Isn’t it amazing a man like me can feel this way,
tell me how much longer, it could grow stronger every day. Oh, how much longer?

I thought I was in love a couple of times before with the girl next door,
but that was long before I met you, now I’m sure that I won’t forget you.
And I thank my lucky stars that you are who you are,
and not just another lovely lady set out to break my heart.

Isn’t it amazing a man like me can feel this way,
tell me how much longer, it could grow stronger every day.

No one can tell me that I’m doing wrong today, whenever I see you smile at me.
No one can tell me that I’m doing wrong today whenever I see your smiling face my way.
No one can tell me that I’m doing it wrong today.
No one can tell me that I’m doing it wrong today.

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About Lyrics and Your Smiling Face by James Taylor

The lyrics to Your Smiling Face are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that James Taylor used when the song was created in 1977. The lyrics to Your Smiling Face have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only James Taylor and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Your Smiling Face by James Taylor. 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 Your Smiling Face" means the words set to the music of Your Smiling Face, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by James Taylor. 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 Your Smiling Face and the lyrics to Your Smiling Face are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of James Taylor who came here looking just for the lyrics to Your Smiling Face, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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