Secret Smile Lyrics
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
[Verse 1]
So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling of sadness
I'm losing, I'm bluesing
But you can save me from madness
[Chorus]
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
[Verse 2]
So save me, I'm waiting
I'm needing, hear me pleading
And soothe me, improve me
I'm grieving, I'm barely believing now, now
[Bridge 1]
When you are flying around and around the world
And I'm lying a-lonely
I know there's something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
[Chorus 1]
So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling of sadness
I'm losing, I'm bluesing
But you can save me from madness
Now, Now
[Bridge 2]
When you are flying around and around the world
And I'm lying a-lonely
I know there's something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only
[Chorus]
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
[Outro]
Nobody knows it, nobody knows it
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret
Nobody knows it, nobody knows it
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret
Nobody knows it, nobody knows it
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret
Nobody knows it, nobody knows it
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret
About
Secret Smile, the third single off the Semisonic album Feeling Strangely Fine, was a notable hit in the UK and Canada, becoming their second most recognizable song after the smash hit ‘Closing Time’.
Q&A
Find answers to frequently asked questions about the song and explore its deeper meaning
I woke up early one morning and the song Secret Smile was in my head, in a dream. I quickly wrote it down and then I fell back asleep. Then later in the morning I went back to the song and I sang it to myself, played it on the piano, and I was thinking this is actually really good, this must be stolen from something. Then for the next month I’d play it for all my friends and say “Is this something you recognise?” I’d ask everybody and they’d say “No, that’s a new song.”
I learned later that happened to McCartney with Yesterday, which is amazing to me. He also had the same experience of assuming that it was copied from some other source. That was my initial instinct, but nobody’s turned up to say I took it!
- Frontman Dan Wilson, speaking to SongWritingMagazine.co.uk
- 1.Closing Time
- 3.Made to Last
- 5.Secret Smile
- 6.DND
- 10.California
- 14.I’m a Liar
- 15.Beautiful Regret
- 16.Makin’ a Plan