Video at https://youtu.be/pOL6a-dC6FI?si=Bf3kHPIWbqdZM8e2
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This is a song about depression and survival. 

When I wrote it I still had another 25 years of surviving it ahead of me. But I'd made a decision years before, when I was 14, that no matter how bad it got it would always get better, sooner or later. And it always did, at least for a while. And knowing that somehow made it just a little bit easier to smile.


[This is a new mix. Drums by John Bennetts have been added and everything else has been changed, at least a little.]

Verse 1:
It’s more than a song
But less than a dream
I know what I say
Is not what I mean
Pretending my words
Aren’t meant to deceive
I’m playing with doubt
I want to believe

I know that it’s hard
To explain why I’m here
I complain though I know
There is nothing to fear
But the fear and the doubt
That wind through my mind
Are inventions of mine
That help pass the time

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 2:
I’m more than a child
But less than a man
I know where I’ve been
But not who I am
I'll say that I'm strong
I'll tell you I’m free
But none of that's true
I just want it to be

Once I entered a room
I pulled down the shade
I turned out the lights
I wanted to fade
But I noticed the wall
Right there looking at me
Pretending to be blind
I really wanted to see

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Verse 3:
It all seemed to happen
A while ago
At a time I was lost
I just didn’t know
That doubting was simply
A game that I had
It gave me a reason
For feeling this bad

There are times there are changes
My memory moves
Preaching the patterns
I’ve worn into grooves
Repeating mistakes
I made in my youth
Learning the lines
And calling them truth
I can’t help but change
Can't help but survive
I might drown in doubt
But I'll still be alive

Chorus:
So here is my song
I wrote it for me
I need to recall
That it’s easy to be
The times that I’ve faced
My life as a trial
Have taught me to see
That it’s easy to smile

Easy to Smile

•See the Video•

Easy To Smile

Caféine est un duo de chanson française qui souhaite proposer ses idées de chansons à des interprètes confirmés. Toute collaboration est la bienvenue! Compositions originales et artisanales - Chansons douces ou vitaminées à déguster avec le café du matin! 
Caféine is a French chanson duo willing to propose his songs to experienced artists. Every kind of collaboration welcome! Original, hand-crafted compositions ;- ) Work in progress ! songs to enjoy with your morning coffee!
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Membre SACEM #France 
 Merci pour votre soutien ! Thanks for your support ! Grazie per  il vostro sostegno! Gracias pour su apoyo!  당신의 지원에 감사드립니다 !謝謝你們的支持  !ご協力ありがとうございます! cảm ơn sự hỗ trợ của bạn!

Compositor & Guitarrista 
 Banda Índigo Blue   ( Anos 80 | 90)
  Músicas autorais
 Brasileiro   
Origem  Mineiro de Guaxupé MG /
 Formação Escolar em São Paulo 
Caipira na Cidade Grande
Residência: São Paulo
Bacharel em Marketing 
Bancário 
Negro https://www.instagram.com/guinhotobias/
Mistura de raças no Brasil faz a força!
Estudante:  80s
Punk Blues Rock :      80s     90s
Marketing Business Man:   2000
Aprendiz de Surf: atual

Influências  Artísticas:   Djavan, Paralamas 
Milton Nascimento, Heitor TP,   
Miles  Davis,  Van Halen, Led Zeppelin,  Living Colours
Jorge Amado, Picasso, Zé Vasconcellos, Brad Pitt, Kendrick Lamar, Luís Gonzaga 
Chaka Kan, The Smiths, Paço de Lucia
Projetos de Cultura e Geração de Energia 

Real Marketing Networks   
Interlagos  São Paulo  
@tobiasbluesman
Sou neto ,, punk mineiro  paulista guitarrista,  mais um brasileiro, tenho que fazer minha parte como brasileiro  ,  no dia a dia faço o melhor  pro meu povo sem pre conceitos. 
Jesus nos seus traços e atitudes 
 
Tudo é possível 
pra quem quer o bem
e tem Deus no coração!
  
By: Hugo Benedito Tobias

From Manchester, 24-year-old Jamie Mathieson is a rising UK artist. His soulful vocals and heartfelt lyrics, inspired by Ed Sheeran, Dermot Kennedy, and James TW, deliver an authentic sound and relatable storytelling. Keep an eye on this talent!


Gerald Harris was born in Grenada MS. Now reside in Minneapolis Minnesota I have worked as a session musician for many different Christian artist throughout the Nashville Tennessee to Atlanta Georgia area for years. He is a accomplished guitarist and pianist, recorded his first R&B release at age 18 with Carrie Records in Nashville TN. Worked with such awesome musician like T.C. Campbell, which later played with the group Cameo. Gerald Harris is a BMI publisher/ singersongwriter, debut album Latter Rain, released March 13, 2012, with Tate Music Group, is still playing in places like the UK, on Cross Rhythms Radio. TV debut on the Great Day Live Morning Show, in Louisville KY. 
We , re-released , both our debut album Latter Rain and Hope Faith And Love 
Albums , and our first R@B Pop single Our World , on the Sugo Music Group
/Gerald Harris Music , 2017 , and released , single prior to that with our new 
record label , Mervilton Records , LLC I Knows Theres A Reason . Our latest project , Pure Love 
the single for that album If I Ever Wondered Why , won Best Christian Gospel Song , Jan 15 , 2020 and is still 
playing and doing well , on radio station across the US, our latest single , to be released May 7 2021 , titled Let Everything That Has Breath .
 
https://www.youtube.com/user/heety532417taytay we are planning for the release of our new album in 2019 be sure to watch and listen out for .We are releasing a cover of the awesome Andra Day song Rise Up in March 1 2022.

Steve Hillier is a keyboard player and vocalist from the U.S. After 30 years as a sideman behind soul and blues recording artists Bobby Stringer and Betty Padgett, he started recording his own music. 

Steve started playing piano and composing music as a teenager growing up in Darien, Connecticut. His music crosses genres, from the progressive rock of his first EP "Moving Star" to the blues-rock of his follow-up EP "Wintertime".  

His lyrics talk of love, compassion, inclusiveness, and spirituality.

To stream and purchase his early home recordings, go to https://stevehillier.bandcamp.com.

Romey is an Artist, Songwriter, and Producer, from Brooklyn, NY. 

Romey began singing in church. His father, being a musician his self, introduced Romey to music at a very young age. He started writing songs at the age of 9 and producing music at age 13. Now, he helps develop new artists, writing and building careers as well as his own. 

He currently released his debut EP, " ChillLife " on February 1st of 2020, and is available on all streaming platforms

I write songs.  I'm not a performer any more than I need to be to have my songs heard once in a while. I hope that better musicians than I encounter my songs and decide to play them.  I just write songs to have them exist in the world. If the world likes them then the world can do with them what it will.  All these recordings are demos.  I've tried to make them as musically interesting as I can but they are all awaiting the skilled hand of someone who knows how to make songs shine.

Easy To Smile

Daniel Weinstein