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about
I wrote 'Look Back Smiling' as a message of sorts for my son.
In these weird covid pandemic years I'd noticed he'd retreated into himself.. He’d missed out on most of his first year at school and bypassed an important year of making those first connections with would be friends.
It set my head off in a direction of wanting him to grab life by the horns and be as much of a kid as he could be before the real trials and tribulations of life seeped into his.
In a time where it was hard to be a normal kid, I was desperate for his young sense of wonder and childlike fearlessness to rule his heart.
When I was young I couldn’t wait to grow up, and now I'm older I'd give anything to go back and be a kid again.
lyrics
When time creeps up, whispers in your ear
Tells you all the things only the older souls hear
I want you, head held high
With a fire in your heart and a pride deep in your eyes
Smiling
Smiling
Smiling
When the last of the leaves are falling from the tree
And you’re on the last lines of your page in history
I want you to have given your all
To say that you got back up after every single fall
When the lights stop shining, there’s no re-winding
Life’s as fast as lightening
So when you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When there's more road behind you than there is up front
When the hunter in your heart has almost finished up the hunt
I want you like a man untamed
Like a lion in the wild looking over his domain
Smiling
Smiling
Smiling
When you’re on the last rotation going around this sun
Steady as she goes on a journey almost done
I want you to have had more than your fill
To have taken every chance, the way I know you will
When the lights stop shining, there's no re-winding
Life’s as fast as lightening
So when you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
When the lights stop shining, there’s no re-winding
Life’s as fast as lightening
So when you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Look back smiling
When you look back, look back smiling
Smiling, smiling, smiling
credits
released January 21, 2022
Gareth Dunlop - Vocals, Keyboards, Synth, Guitars, Additional Programming
Jolene O’Hara - Backing Vocals
Matthew Weir - Drums, Percussion, Additional Programming
Simon Francis - Bass
Written By Gareth Dunlop
Recorded at Sycamore Studios
Produced By Gareth Dunlop & Matthew Weir
Mixed By Alastair McMillan
Mastered By Fergal Davis
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