When it was time to take a photo of you
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
When it was time to make a memory of you
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
Maybe no

When it was time to take a photo of you
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
When it was time to make a memory of you
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
Was it really all that hard for you?
And why it was we never knew

If God was always on your side
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
If you knew you’d win at whatever you tried
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
Have you found the star you waited for?
Is that what you were fighting for?

You were right that if I traveled and saw too much
I’d never belong to someone, only to it all
You were right about that, but I was right to travel
‘Cause I learned to smile even in the darkest night

When it was time to say goodbye at last
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
When it was time to let go of the past
Couldn’t you have let go once?

What we cannot show we can’t let go
What we can’t let go no one can know

You were right that if I traveled and saw too much
I’d never belong to someone, only to it all
You were right about that, but I was right to travel
‘Cause I learned to smile even in the darkest night
Even in the darkest night
Even in the darkest night

When it was time to take a photo of you
When it was time to take a photo of you
When it was time to take a photo of you
Couldn’t you have smiled just once?
Baby, no…

Words, music, recording, and production by Richard Faylor
© Deep Happy Music
richardfaylor@yahoo.com
208-713-4002