Name: It Makes Me Smile
Duration: P00H04M27S
Description: Grieving is strange. You really never know how you’re going to react in a certain situation, and how long that feeling will last. The only thing I do know is that it does get easier.

It Makes Me Smile

from A Man Down by Andrew James Jr.

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Grieving is strange. You really never know how you’re going to react in a certain situation, and how long that feeling will last. The only thing I do know is that it does get easier.

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I keep on living every day
I brush my teeth, comb my hair.
Happens once or twice a week - I stop and think, you’re not there.
And it makes me sad.

You’re just a bunch of memories
Hotel pools and junky cars.
Ash trays and ugly shoes
Stupid jokes you took too far.
And they make me smile.

So I close my eyes and try to see your face.
Every month it seems I lose a trace.
Maybe I never knew what sadness was before.

I keep on living every day -
Drink my coffee, put on shoes
Maybe come a year or two
I’ll think of you, and it won’t bruise
It’ll make me smile.

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from A Man Down, released June 1, 2008
AJJ - vocals, piano, guitar, percussion
Will Martina - cello

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