Gettin' Smile

1969

 

Unico album pubblicato dagli Smile, gruppo composto da Brian May, Roger Taylor e Tim Staffel prima dell'arrivo di Mercury e della fondazione dei Queen. Eccetto per "earth", scritta solo da Staffel, i brani sono firmati tutti dal duo May-Staffel. Contiene "Doin' all right", ripresa poi dai Queen per il loro album d'esordio.

 
 
 
 

DOIN' ALL RIGHT:

Yesterday my life was in ruins
Now today I know what I'm doin'
Gotta feelin', I should be doin' all right
Doing all right

Where will I be this time tomorrow?
Jumped in joy or sinking in sorrow
Anyway, I should be doing all right
Doing all right

Should be waiting for the sign
Looking round to find the words to say
Should be waiting for the skies to clear
If there were time in all the world

Should be waiting for the sun
and anyway I got to hide away

Yesterday my life was in ruin
Now today God knows what I'm doing
Anyway, I should be doin' all right
Doing all right

Doin' all right

 
 

BLAG:

Take away my sunshine
You take away my rain
I can see it in you eyes
There must be a dance floor somewhere
You can find a way
I can see it in your eye

 
 

APRIL LADY:

She won our hearts the art she loved
Is painting pictures free
When she was done she hung them up
For all the children to see 

Goodbye April Lady
It's been good to have you around
Goodbye April Lady
You've done alot for the folks in this town 

Children learned to read
She strung their beads
It's sorry she was the one
As you can isn't she good
She don't leave nothing undone 

Children learned to read
She strung their beads
It's sorry she was the one
As you can isn't she good
She don't leave nothing undone 

She taught them all to love
She was their cream
And we don't want her to go
But we know too well
She fell in love
And there's no stopping her now

 
 

POLAR BEAR:

In the bright shop window sits the polar bear
Makes the children's eyes light up to see him there
Amongst the tinsel he gives everyone a smile
To see him and he'll be a star
Love him from where you are 

He's not for, not for, not for sale 

Past an open window walks the pretty girl
Does she see me at her feet its hard to tell
But if I ask her she might turn her smile away
To see him and he'll be a star
Love her from where you are 

I guess I'll learn to look
Without addressing her
Minor contentment wears a smile
I love her from where I lie 

 
 

EARTH:

I might be at a table
And suddenly I'll catch
A fleeting vision of her crystal seas 

Or I might be standing in a crowded dockyard faraway
Beneath the sun I've never seen 

'Cos I have seen many worlds
For what it's worth
But I'll never see again
The planet earth
My earth 

I might be chasing waves of light
Out towards the grim
Where stars are sparse
And the cold of space seeps in
But I might be in a barroom
Drinking menthylated gin
And thinking of places I have been 

Yes I have seen many worlds
For what it's worth
But I'll never see again the planet earth
My earth 

Cast adrift amongst the stars
I float from sun to sun
Dreaming of the world that gave me birth
All the places I have been
Remind me there is none to match the green living hills of earth. 

 
 

STEP ON ME:

Know what I said when I saw you crying
Hang on that's folly
I was weak in the head out to meet your lying
You're just a bad memory 

My life was going to be better
My why did I never ever see she'd step on me 

Well I talked to your friend just the other day
I was gonna look and raise a smile
And she hid a smile and she ain't like you
Been asleep from all the journeys a little while 

My life was going to be better
My why did I never ever see she step on me 

Step on me, step on me, step on me 

Now it's so good I won't waste my time
On a two year old picture of you
Oh now that you're gone everything's fine
But you probably think that we're through. 

 
 
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