Still Smiling - I Start Counting

As the sun sets through the CO2

I think of things connected with you

Have you left the job

Do you still play the records that I gave away

I write down the dreams you’re in I write down the dreams I have of you

Some are set on earth

Others set elsewhere

Are you still smiling

Still, still smiling

I see the sharp eyed girls in magazines

Cutting through their clothes

With their shoulder blades

I try to ignore the sense of it Watching me from their eyes

Are you still smiling

Still, still smiling

July was the last time I spoke to you

I’m one of life’s losers you said

Such useless tricks my mind plays on me Imagining the past is still to come

Pretending I can recapture

That lazy hot summer not so long ago

Are you still smiling

Are you still smiling

Are you still smiling