The greatest thing you ever can do now Is trade a smile with someone who's blue now It's very easy Mmm, I'm telling you now Bright light, almost blinding Black night, still there shining I can't stop, keep on climbing Looking for what I knew

'Long come tutu A long, long time You know what makes me smile It’s kicking its groove for miles No matter what mood I’m in We were waiting Still awaiting It always make me grin

So go but be kind You have luck on your side Born into a family with food in their bellies And a car for them to drive People sleeping on the concrete Still smile behind their signs So go now be happy and be free You have so much time If you go chances

If New Orleans is beat, if New Orleans is beat Where does that leave you and me? Don't think about it Your smile is fading a bit, so I ration it Here where the Mississippi quits Where it's still got a bit of Minnesota in it No one will give you a thing

I miss you, I miss your smile And I still shed a tear every once in a while And even though it's different now You're still here somehow My heart won't let you go And I need you to know I miss you, sha la la la la Sha la la la la, sha la la la la

No one ever left me out in the rain Cold words still remain unspoken You're here, now my heart's unbroken And I never got lost, spent years in the dark When I see you smile feel my soul again I'm unbroken If I lived and breathed before you loved me, I

Walk in the rave, smile on my face Drink in my cup, hand in my jeans Man talk tough, man look up, down, left, right Straight to a bang in the teeth Man still talk tough, man saw man in the flesh Now man's tryna talk to my Gs Nah, none of that, none, .45

And Marie's the name of his latest flame Though I smiled the tears inside were a-burning I wished him luck and then he said goodbye He was gone but still his words kept returning What else was there for me to do but cry Would you believe that yesterday

When everything isn't yellow (yellow, yellow) When everything isn't yellow Will we still smile through broken glass And live in falsetto Are we too deep for a second chance They say time is a healer Well, how do you expect to heal this clock And every

The kids will be alright Kids are kids, understand Out late, going crazy, kids innocent I heard about all of the long trials in life All the drugs on my mind All the troubles I can find Still I smile The kids turned out fine