The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
by Asia

Album: Alpha (1983)
Charted: 81 34
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  • I saw you standing hand in hand
    But now you come to me, the solitary man
    And I know what it is that made us live
    Such ordinary lives
    Where to go, the who to see
    No one could sympathize
    The smile has left your eyes
    The smile has left your eyes

    And I've become a rolling stone
    I don't know where to go or what to call my own
    But I can see that black horizon looming ever close to view
    It's over now it's not my fault
    See how this feels for you
    The smile has left your eyes
    The smile has left your eyes
    I never thought I'd see you
    Standing there with him
    So don't come crawling back to me

    I saw you standing hand in hand
    But now you come to me, the solitary man
    And I know what it is that made us live
    Such ordinary lives
    Where to go, the who to see
    No one could sympathize
    The smile had left your eyes
    Now it's too late to realize
    Now there's no one can say goodbyes
    Now that the smile has left your eyes

    Now it's too late to realize
    Now there's no one can sympathize
    Now it's too late to realize
    Now that the smile has left your eyes

    The smile has left your eyes Writer/s: John Kenneth Wetton
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Comments: 4

  • Dennis from New JerseyThis album may have sold poorly, but the video for this song is outstanding, and the very last 2 seconds of the video send a chill down my spine every time!
  • Honcho from VaSam Fields "the album did so poorly John Wetton took offense and bit the hand that feeds"-- how can an album include a track blaming another person for selling poorly, John Wetton could see into the future? That's utter gibberish. Alpha went platinum in the U.S., by the way.
  • Sam FieldsThis was the album that sank Asia's lively hood. Alpha from Asia sold very poorly in 1983. Even with Mike Stone being Producer over the sessions. Geffen Records played a HUGE PART into this album. So much so that every track sounded like a filler and no single anywhere on the record. John Wetton was pushed into writing a song or theme/idea that CEO David Geffen and others thought they could push that would exemplify a more progressive lifestyle that nobody would ever thought about it was being brought into the open. But "The Smile Has Left Your Eyes" is actually a song about David Geffen and his lifestyle and because the album did so poorly John Wetton took offense and bit the hand that feeds. John Wetton unfortunately didn't know how to handle this situation and that's why Geffen Records and top executives at the label fired him and Asia never got support or recognition and radio airplay after this situation. Listen to the lyrics to The Smile Has Left Your Eyes...there's something wrong with those lyrics it's not about any band member or boy meets girl relationship....
  • Danielle from Palm Coast, Flawww... so sad i saw the music video and some what related to it when my parents got a divorce.for those of you how do not know the story the mother kept her daughter from seeing her father through their divorce. and the little girl committed suicided. it shows how powerful a divorce is the part that said the smile has left your eyes is referring to her daughter. don t know what to call my own refers to how his daughter is forbidden to see him and he is questions if she is really hir daughter and his own but
    I never thought I'd see you
    Standing there with him
    So don't come crawling
    Back to me
    refers to the wife and he sees her with another man and it bounces back and forth through out the song to the daughters sadness to the fathers sadness. and to partly to the wife.
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