Dilana @Amstel Live "Central Park" 2000/2001

Beau and I wrote this just weeks after 9/11,  it was our First musical response.

9/11 2001was Beau's 21st birthday

Smile

Take no prisoner, leave no trace, make no wave
 Freedom’s illusion, home of the rich and the slave
 Cynics and critics, making the news, creating a scene
 Destiny lies in the fools who refuse to give up on a dream

And I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

Wear it well and it could appear in your heart
 Indelibly printed on someone a world apart
 Lights in the window all through our darkest day
 Human kindness outdistances being afraid

And I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

“I don’t trust the American smile. They smile for nothing.
 I think it’s to disarm you or something.” 
 ”No, I don’t think so. I smile because I want to make some kind of a connection.
 I look at someone and I think… we’re connected”

I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 I love people who smile
 If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world

(you sing) I love people who smile…
 (me) If everybody smiles, we’ll have a hometown all over the world
 What a wonderful world.


Dilana @Amstel Live "Central Park" 2000/2001

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