Smile

Album: Lonely Grill (1999)
Charted: 39
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about the lead singer seeing that his relationship with a girl is going wrong, and it's about to end. He's telling himself that he's going to smile and stay strong when it happens, that way when she leaves, she'll never have to see the damage that it's caused him. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Landon - Winchester, OH
  • This was written by the Nashville songwriters Keith Follese and Jon Randall. Follese also cowrote "The Way You Love Me" by Martina McBride, and "Something Like That" by Tim McGraw. Randall is also a singer/guitarist who has been in backing bands for Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett. He wrote "Whiskey Lullaby" with Bill Anderson, which was recorded by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss.

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