Male Vocal · 3:03
She Smiles Like the Sun — Male Vocal — Percussive Acoustic Groove-Rock
Percussive Acoustic Groove-Rock


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Words by Douglas Heyes Jr. Listen to the recorded versions and follow the lyric below.
Original Doug Heyes lyrics · AI-generated music & vocals
A beloved woman's changing moods are pictured through sunlight, rain, wind, flowers and volcanic force. The portrait follows her vitality, travels and painful history without reducing her to any one of them. Her return is imagined as a desert flowering, bringing friendship, desire and the possibility of loving again.
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3 recordings. Different voices and arrangements bring another side of the song into the light.
Male Vocal · 3:03
Percussive Acoustic Groove-Rock
Female Vocal · 2:56
Disco-Soul Reinterpretation
Lyrics
Words by Douglas Heyes Jr
For Christina Rochelle Foster on her birthday 06.06.24
SHE SMILES LIKE THE SUN She smiles like the sun She cries like the rain She moves like the wind All across the open plain She found herself a way To let go of her pain and She smiles like the Sun And she cries like the rain She dances like nature She sings like the Moon She loves all the creatures But they're all gone too soon She teaches me to love her When she reaches for me She sets me on fire again And then she sets me free She bubbles up like lava From underneath the crust She races down the canyon Like water cuz she must She knows that ashes come to ashes And dust will come to dust She took her 40 lashes And got on board the magic bus She smiles like the sun She cries like the rain She moves like the wind All across the open plain She found a way to let go Of her Father/Mother pain She smiles like the Sun And she cries like the rain She is orchid Elegance Ask them up in Paris, France She set the world all sideways All the villages and byways Never the same as before Electric nights on the Golden Shore From Europe to the Farthest East Back in the belly of the beast But when they gathered for the feast Like the song has always said Was it Hotel California Or was it the living Dead When the song was over They all went on their way Scratched their heads; here's what they said On their last and final day They said she smiles like the sun And she cries like the rain She moves like the wind When she takes away your pain And when her love comes back again Like a desert in the spring You’ll have a lover and a friend And she’ll give you everything CODA: She smiles like the sun She cries like the rain She moves like the wind And she's coming home again ***********
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