Can't Smile Without You - Barry Manilow

You know I can't smile without you I can't smile without you I can't laugh and I can't walk I'm finding it hard even to talk And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you You came along just like a song You brightened my day Who'd believe you were part of a dream That only seemed light years away And you know I can't smile without you I can't smile without you And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you Some people say the happiness way Is something that's hard to find Into the new, leaving the old behind me And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you Into the new, leaving the old behind me And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you And you must know what I'm going through

All the thoughts in my head spin around like a hurricane And life leaves me so confused When I trip and I fall, I collapse like a tidal wave So I'm crying out to You And You reached down out of nowhere And picked my heart up off the floor (You didn't let go of me) You put my life back together And I'm not broken anymore (You didn't let go of me) You're my only wish for a dream come true And it goes like this, "Will You come to my rescue?" You're the only hope that I'm clinging to And I hope You know I can't live without You I, I can't live without You I, I just can't live without You When I'm hit like a hook to the jaw in a tidal fight I'm down and I'm knocked out cold, You know And with my heart broke apart like a wreck in a shallow tide Yeah, I've never felt this low And You reached down out of nowhere And picked my heart up off the floor (You didn't let go of me) You put my life back together And I'm not broken anymore (this is all I know) You're my only wish for a dream come true And it goes like this, "Will You come to my rescue?" You're the only hope that I'm clinging to And I hope You know I can't live without You I, I can't live without You I, I just can't live without You You're my only wish for a dream come true And it goes like this, "Will You come to my rescue?" You're the only hope that I'm clinging to And I hope You know I can't live without You You're my only wish for a dream come true And it goes like this, "Will You come to my rescue?" You're the only hope that I'm clinging to And I hope You know I can't live without You

She's a great little housewife Though sometimes she talks like a fool But she helps at the store in the holiday rush And she picks up the kids after school And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home And she changes from mother to wife 'Til she feels the words hanging between them And she hangs by her words to her life She says I swear I love my husband, I love my kids I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed She's a sweetheart, except when she's moody It's hard to get through to her then Depressed for a while when the youngest was born Oh but that happens now and again She might take a drink with the housework Or when Michael's kept late at the shop A Martini or two before dinner But she always knows when to stop She says I swear I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed Oh they used to hold hands at the movies Now it's seldom if ever they go Once you've paid for the sitter and parkin' the car There's no money left for the show She was doing the dishes When a glass fell and broke on the tile And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake) It was real touch and go for a while She says Oh God I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my, my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed

We walked to the sea Just my father and me And the dogs played around on the sand Winter cold cut the air Hangin' still everywhere Dressed in gray, did he say hold my hand I said, love's easier when it's far away We sat and watched a distant light We're two ships that pass in the night We both smile and we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night There's a boat on the line Where the sea meets the sky There's another that rides far behind And it seems you and I Are like strangers, a wide ways apart As we drift on through time He said, it's harder now, we're far away We only read you when you write We're two ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night We're just ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night