Smile

Lily Allen: her of heart-shaped earrings, fluorescent eye liner and summer anthem “Smile”, has created a neat, cohesive debut, describing urban life from the clever girl’s perspective. I liked the song when I first heard it. Never heard of her before, or her famous dad, or any of her history.

The bouncing “Smile” is just as good, its loose reggae arrangement. As Lily Allen sings bitterly about her ex, with just a hint of vulnerability at first “You were fucking that girl next door / What’d you do that for?”, before going to her friends for reassurance “With a little help from my friends / I found a light in the tunnel at the end”, and confronting the guy during the chorus with a mean-spirited confidence that has us cheering inside “When I see you cry, yeah it makes me smile”…


Lily Allen - Smile (ringtone on your mobile phone)
Lily Allen - Smile (audio music)
Lily Allen - Smile (video music)
(sung by Lily Allen)

When you first left me I was wanting more
But you were fucking that girl next door, what’d you do that for
When you first left me I didn’t know what to say
I’d never been on my own that way, just sat by myself all day

I was so lost back then
But with a little help from my friends
I found a light in the tunnel at the end
Now you’re calling me up on the phone
So you can have a little whine and a moan
And it’s only because you’re feeling alone

At first when I see you cry,
yeah it makes me smile, yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while,
but then I just smile I go ahead and smile

Whenever you see me you say that you want me back
And I tell you it don’t mean jack, no it don’t mean jack
I couldn’t stop laughing, no I just could help myself
See you messed up my mental health I was quite unwell

I was so lost back then
But with a little help from my friends
I found a light in the tunnel at the end
Now you’re calling me up on the phone
So you can have a little whine and a moan
And it’s only because you’re feeling alone

At first when I see you cry,
yeah it makes me smile, yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while,
but then I just smile I go ahead and smile

lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala lalala

At first when I see you cry,
yeah it makes me smile, yeah it makes my smile
At worst I feel bad for a while,
but then I just smile I go ahead and smile

lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala