When You Smile

Snapshot of me on a Tuesday morning,

With no idea my world would change;

Great things can come to you with no warning.

I’m starting to learn that life is strange.

I didn’t plan, I let fate guide me;

But I never knew

My life was waiting right outside me.

I didn’t have a clue.

Back now to me on that crazy Tuesday;

Try to keep up, this story’s true.

This day turned into a no-more-blues day,

‘Cause this is the part I get to you.

I picked a place to get some coffee;

That’s just where I walked.

If I had gone another block, see,

We might have never talked.

You ordered “tea over ice.”

The clerk was staring at you.

She didn’t know what to think

When I ordered it too.

You told the stupidest jokes.

I thought you talked really fast.

Then I was telling jokes, too.

We were having a blast, and

Then you smiled;

Like a trap, and

When you smiled

I was smiling, too and

When we smiled

Something happened;

While we smiled,

Like three hours flew.

It’s crazy

And kind of

Amazing,

‘Cause when I saw your smile

My life turned around.

Who knew that Tuesday this thing was starting?

Who knew we’d grow so strong as friends?

You’ve taught me friendship’s a map we’re charting;

I know it won’t break, it only bends.

You make me laugh and that’s a real thing;

Yeah, I never knew

That I could be so full of feeling

‘Til I met you, you

Make me smile,

Like we’re playing.

When you smile

I don’t have a choice, so

I just smile

When you’re saying

“Come on, smile!”

And I find my voice.

Before you

Life bored me