Your Smiling Back

We sit together I am fumbling for my words
and I spill some conversation on your sleeve
and as you wipe it off politely, trying to act surprised
I guess that it is time for me to leave

Well, this is not my kind of thing
Sometimes silence is the only way I sing
If you hear me now please don’t walk away
I am calling to the sky

I learn some songs of love and play them to my mirror
Thinking to myself this is not what I mean
It’s just that I can never say just what I’m feeling
But with you I do not have to I am clean

You see me every day, smiling at the things you say
Is your smiling back a friendly sign?
Could you put your heart in mine?

I want to be your closer friend
to hear your stories end to end
Is your smiling back a friendly sign?
Would you want my love in time?

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