Wonderful Life was Simon Mark Smith’s highly anticipated second album. Released in 2011, 17 years after “Entitled”, it more than exceeded expectations. With 19 tracks including “Facebook”, “Wonderful Life” and “Come Home” all of which got onto radio playlists around the world and were partly behind the sudden increase in Simon’s Internet following, which then shot up to 160 thousand followers on Facebook alone. You can stream the songs for free by clicking on their titles just below.
Tracks list (lyrics and further details can be found by scrolling down the page).
1 Wonderful Life 4:02
2 Facebook 3:12
3 In The Middle Of The Night 4:06
4 Come Home 3:26
5 The Greatest Love 4:12
6 Naughty 4:01
7 Blue 4:07
8 Gritty 4:00
9 Little By Little 4:22
10 The Book 4:11
11 You and Me 4:38
12 The Chemistry Of Tears 4:18
13 Waiting For You 4:33
14 Love On The TV 4:02
15 Where The Locals Meet 3:37
16 Sometimes You See Me 3:20
17 Persuading You 3:58
18 The Lives Of Ghosts 4:11
19 Happy All The Time 5:03
*Please note track order varies slightly for different countries

















A Brief description and lyrics below
1 Facebook
A wry and slightly dark look at Facebook
One of the most accessible songs on the album, this touches on desperate and confused feelings that can come in the middle of the night.
A partner with an addiction to computer games is asked to come back to real life. Features some well known contributors.
4 Gritty
Sometimes Love Get’s Gritty. Features Peter Henderson, Chris White and a few other well known artists.
Based on a chapter in Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, this is about how pain tends to surround what we see as love.
Faced with an imminent separation the realisation that life goes on kicks in, in this slow build song with a twist in its tail.
7 Naughty
A juxtapositioning of darkness and sex.
8 Blue
Embrace life and embrace sadness, if you want to live then they go hand in hand at times.
From the Entitled album, whilst extremely derivative of Dire Straits, this song proved very popular over the years so got an encore on this album.
10 The Book
From the point of view of a book that’s fallen in love with its reader and wants to come alive.
11 You and Me
Everyone wants to be a part of a “you and me”.
Scientific understanding doesn’t make the loss easier to bear.
Based on a war poem about a woman waiting for her son to return.
What can seem banal from one point of view often has hidden layers of passion when viewed from another perspective.
The hidden world beneath an otherwise normal exterior.
Touches on the fickleness of feelings often encountered in relationships.
Who’s persuading who?
What was real? A search through the lives of ghosts for a love that may never have existed.
From the album Entitled, though derivative of Dire Straits this has become somewhat of an ending anthem for Simon over the years, and appropriately brings this album to its close.
Lyrics
1 Wonderful Life 04:20
Pulled up in my driveway, Sat in my car
Night sky was coming down hard
Listened to the radio, Skipped a couple of tunes
Looked in my mirror at you
Didn’t know why, didn’t want to come in
Feeling dead inside,
Someone told a story, Somebody lied
Chorus
So take a ride, Enjoy the trip of my life
It’s a wonderful life,
Have you got a feeling, got to get away,
Do you get to feeling, that you’ll no longer stay
Have you got a feeling, Got to get away
Got to get away, Got to get away
Moon it goes around
Life it flies, Gonna say hello
Sometimes goodbye
Take the phone right off the hook
Gonna sit down and write your book
Gonna take the lies we once said
Write across your bed
Well I’d come to you, But you’d go,
And all the things I’d have to say, you’d know
Chorus
Times are here, times are gone
No matter what, it moves on
I don’t remember me pointing a gun
I don’t remember us not having fun
I don’t remember us wanting more
But I guess I don’t know us anymore
Chorus
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2 Facebook 03:12
I like your likes
I like your posts
I like your photos
They’re the most
Say won’t you
Add me as a friend
Your photos drive me
Round the bend
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
We clicked and our world shook
Now we’re connected on your Facebook
You tagged my heart
I love your smile
Embed our words
In sweet denial
I searched for you
In fields above
Say won’t you PM
Me your love
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
We clicked and our my world shook
Now we’re connected on your Facebook
You poked me
I poked you too
These walls of words
Can’t be true
So tell a secret
Never told
No Comment Baby
Dreams I hold
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
Hey look I’m on your Facebook
We clicked and then our world shook
Now we’re connected on your Facebook
08 October 2010
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3 In The Middle Of The Night 04:06
I’m watching the storm on my TV
Look out the window at the rain
I see you smiling in the puddles of the sky
Don’t know why you go,
Don’t know why you go,
Lights are flashing
The wind is blowing
And the rain comes down
Trains go by and cars drown out the sound
Planes are flying high
Gonna touch the sky one day
Gonna take it all away
Gonna know you’re waiting there
Upon a wing, Upon a prayer
Chorus
In the middle of the night I drive away
Drive along gonna take away today
Gonna love you and keep my love today
Gonna take my life, gonna take it away
I don’t know I can’t see
But your love is in the wind
Like a bird that’s home to stay
I can feel you here next to me
A thousand miles away
A thousand miles away
Standing in a phone box
Singing tales of woe
Exchange your money
For the things that you don’t know
Forces come and go
‘til my love goes somewhere
I’ll pretend that I don’t care
Memories of love are everywhere
Chorus
In the middle of the night I’m with you
In the middle of the night I need you
In the middle of the night I’m loving you
In the middle of the night I’m with you
Forces come and go
‘til my love goes somewhere
I’ll pretend that I don’t care
Memories of love are everywhere
In the middle of your breath I’ll kiss you
In the middle of our dance we speak a truth
In the middle of journeys that make us stay
In the middle of a crisis my peace be with you
In the middle of the night,
In the middle of the night
In the middle of our life,
In the middle of our life
In the middle of the night,
In the middle of our love
In the middle of our love
10/07/09
4 Come Home 03:26
I’ve walked down the computer game roads
Of your mind,
In the darkness of night I’ve
Crept up behind,
And grabbed you round the waist and said,
“Come back now in to our bed”
“Leave those monsters to fight alone now darlin’ “
“Come back home my darling.”
I’ve walked down the corridors of your mind
Why do you want to leave your life behind?
I’ve walked down the computer game roads of your mind,
In the darkness of night I felt you leave me behind,
From the wasted cities of the web
Come back now into our bed
Without your heart its not a home my darling
Please come home darling
I walked down the corridors of your mind
Why do want to leave your life behind
Oh Baby come home now
Take the modem from the phone now
Please come home my love
If you don’t care then I don’t mind
I walked down the corridors of your mind
Watched you flying on the line
I walked down the corridors of your mind
Why do you want to leave your life behind?
Hey girl
Watched you flying on the line
Watched you flying on the line
Please come home my love
Please come home my love
©2000 London
5 The Greatest Love 04:12
The greatest love you feel
Hurts you deep inside
Might not be what you want
But comes no matter
What you try
You can’t escape it
You cannot walk away
It’s there to stay
There to pay
It’s bitter on one hand
On the other it’s a child
Will make you cry
But later make you smile
The tears will fall but you
Won’t want them to come
But you can’t run
You can’t fly
You’ve got to stay
And feel your time
The greatest love
Will hurt you
Deep inside of you
The greatest love
Will never leave you
But you try to run, you try
To do what you think is right
But there’s no escape
There’s no light
There’s no way out tonight
It is you (It’s coming after you)
There’s nothing you can do
Gonna whisper goodbye
Gonna watch you cry
Gonna watch it stay with you
Haunt you till you die
And feel your time
The greatest love
Will hurt you deep inside of you
The greatest love
Will never leave you
But you try to run
You try to do what you think is right
But there’s no escape
There’s no light
There’s no way out tonight
It is you
There’s nothing you can do
There’s nothing you can do
There’s no escape for me and you
For me and you
Backing: Susan Lahache.
©April 2011
6 Naughty 04:01
The moon looks down
As we both sleep
I breathe, and eat,
And feel and weep
I love, I hate
I dream, I wake,
I have lost and gained
I feel pleasure and pain,
I have lived and I will die
I have repented
And I have lied
Chorus:
I can feel your
Eyes undressing me
You want my body
As close as it can be
Next to you
You’re a naughty girl
But baby you will do
All the things
I dreamed you’d do
It doesn’t matter what
You do or say
The moves you make
Or the songs you play
What you love to hate
The money you make
Cos I want you to long
And I want you strong
I have loved you
And I have cried
I have been tempted
And my heart tried
Chorus
Sun is blinding
As we dance in the rain
The beat of your heart
Drives my mind insane
We’re lost in the heat
Of this deadly game
I’ve lost and gained
Felt pleasure and pain
Surrender and our love dies
Defend it and I will lie
Chorus
Copyright 2010
Backing Vocals Carol Baldock
Jane Broadmore
7 Blue 04:07
We’ve been a racing
Against time
Don’t know if
You’ll be mine
But my heart
Is waiting for you
And the night time
Will you be there
When I need you
Will you sing me
Songs of blue
Will your sentiments
Be true
Will you fill me
With the deepest
And the truth
Chorus: Blue ( long )
Well I sit
In my night chair
And I hold
Memories of you
But the truth
It’s so hard
To take sometimes
That I don’t want
To be true to you
Don’t want to fill you
With blue
Chorus: Blue ( long )
Well the times
They come and go
I think of you
And you know
But the times
They will change
But If you stay still
Or if you’re filled
With fear
Then you’ll never
Come here
And feel the blue
Blue ( repeat until end )
© 2007 Simon Smith and Paul Tanner
Guitar Paul Tanner
8 Gritty 04:00
I was lying on the road
Looking at my skin
I said hey baby
Will you come and look in?
I was pleading
Don’t you leave me
I was begging you
Don’t forsake me
I could tell the sight
Weren’t pretty
But sometimes
Love gets gritty
I was lying beside you
Through a long dark night
I was holding your hand
Oh so tight
I was thinking
About you leaving
About you
Going away
You woke
To find me praying
Begging you to stay
Well love it’s a dark time
So love
Welcome to my dark mind
I was walking a long road
Trying to find my way
I was telling you to go
But hoping you would stay
I was giving you this shit
‘Cause you’d given some to me
I was blinding you with words
But hoping you’d see through me
But sometimes love gets gritty
©Simon Smith 1995
9 Little By Little 04:22
Little by little
I will go away
Little by little
You will learn
The lines
That you’ve
Got say,
You’ve got to say
Little by little
I will fall from view
Little by little
I will lose you
Learn about a life
Without you
A place in my mind
That I will go
A place in my life
That you got to know
A scar in my heart
That I’m proud to show
You said not to stay
So we went with the flow
I’ve been taught
About passion many a time
I’ve been taught about love
And given the signs
I’ve been taught about
The way we’re meant to be
I followed the river
And you flowed through me
There’s a peace in my heart
When you are near
It’s something I love,
Something that’s dear
It’s something to lose
And its loss I fear
The river is pure
And the river is clear
©Simon Smith
14 November ’90
10 The Book 04:11
Come, listen to me
Gonna move you now
Your whole story
I am a friend
From times gone by
I watched you smile
And I made you cry
I didn’t know what
You were going to do
So I tied up your hands
And left you too
To ride in dreams
Upon high
Used to ride in the beam
Of where we’d fly
You didn’t know where
And didn’t see
I’m your inside guide
On a long journey
I did my time
And I did it well
We’ve been to heaven
And ran through Hell
I’ll sign to the left
But keep to the right
When I take you out
On a Saturday night
I’m gonna love you
But now you’ve gone
I used to love true
But that was wrong
I used to love blue
But now it’s grey
I’ll come back to you
Another day
I’m gonna look deep
In to your eyes
Gonna pour tears
In to long goodbyes
You’ll touch my nose
And caress my ears
While I warm your heart
And stir your fears
I need your love
To take me out of control
Gonna drive to the end,
End of the road
Gonna love till the stars
Are coming on home
I need your love
But you’d rather
Lie alone
I got a gun
And I aimed it true
I got your site
And your eyes were blue
I’ll make you laugh
I’ll make you cry
I’m the story teller
Of times gone by
I’m gonna see you
Fall to me
I want your hands
To set me free
I’m gonna sit at the table
And break the bread
And listen to the thoughts
Inside your head
I need your hands
To take a hold on me
I need your mouth to
Set me free
I need your heart
To rescue me
I need your love
Need your love
To bring life to me
I need your love
(Outro)
16 July 2010
11 You and Me 04:38
I’m happy now
You’re sleeping here
This love is pure
You come to me
And go away
Play songs of love
From yesterday
Lovers kiss eternally
That’s the way it’s
Meant to be
Everybody learns
By heart
How their love
Is gonna start
It’s gonna be
You and me
Everybody wants
You and me
Come with me
You and me
Keep my love
Don’t take away
I know
I’m gonna stay
And run away
Fled by me
Keep today
In my love
Every time
You go away
My love will come
And say no more
To you
Kiss the blue
Start to lose
Je t’accuse
And you
Make my heart sing
Of dreams where truth
Is something
If our love is
Meant to be
Then it’s something
That we’ll see
If this dream is
Going to live
Then we’ll have to
Learn to give
Every time you go away
My love’ll call another day
Every time you see my heart
Gonna take us to the start
Everybody take my hand
Everybody understand
Everybody laughin’ with me
Everybody come to me
In time we’ll be fine
Walk away my love
With you
Every time you go away
My love’ll call another day
And every time
You cry no more
Gonna open up a door
Every time you go away
My heart it says
It gonna stay like
Everybody who loved me
Is gonna see
If it’s you
And I am me
Well you’re gonna take me
Forsake me for a lie
My love is true
Dressed in blue
Start to lose
Je t’accuse
And you make
My heart sing
Of dreams where
Truth is something
If our love is meant to be
Then it’s something that we’ll see
If this dream is going to live
Then we’ll have to learn to give
If we’re gonna live at all
We’re gonna have to risk a fall
Now here’s my number
And here’s the ball
Speak the truth
Now make the call
Every time you leave
Your heart calls
Through doors and walls
Fate may choose
That we should lose
I’ll kiss the blues
Je t’accuse
March 2009
12 The Chemistry Of Tears 04:18
The rhythm of the seasons call
Upon the shadows on my wall
As I wait for the phone to ring
I feel the thoughts hurting
But the times they come to me are sharing tears
And the time we visited Galilee last year
And the sun it calls over prison walls
And the time you loved me
Will recall what I first saw and
This is the geology of our love
A fault line through my heart
And the shingle of your tears
Resounds to me for a million years
I wave at you across the canyon
You shoot a starry look at me
And say that this was a place
Where once they’d been a sea
And on dry land star fish come to me
But the times they come to me are tearing tears
And the time we visited Galilee last year
The bullet it landed here and made a mark upon the wall
This where the body came to fall
This is the time of my life
And this is a photo where
You once were my wife
This is the weapon
This is the song
This is the reason why it went wrong
And this is the chemistry of
This is the biology
This is the psychology of goodbye
23 January 2009
13 Waiting For You 04:33
Well The sun is setting
And I’m sitting in my room
Waiting for you to come
In to my life
The door is open and the breeze upon my face
I’m sitting here
Waiting for you
I’ve travelled the world
And I’ve seen a million people
Who said hello and goodbye to my heart
The day has come and the night will pass
Will you come to me
Well the sun is setting on my woeful days
I have been paying for the time
Will you come to me when I will lay
Will you come to me when I lie down and cry
The story comes and it leaves me still
I’ve dreamt of you through the long dark night
And woke to find you weren’t real
My soul is searching
Through the world for you
Will you come to me?
(c) Simon Smith August 11th 2007
14 Love On The TV 04:02
Look out a long way to sea
People on a boat lookin’ back at me
I’m sitting quietly watching the world go by
Don’t you see me cry
Don’t you see me
I’m watching the trees grow
Watching the peace blow by
I’m watching people dancing
Walking hand in hand – no cry
And if you knew the things we did
Then maybe you’d come to see
But our love is something
You’ll never find on the TV
I’m watching the history of our love on TV
Rewind to the part where you say you love me
But our love was a story that could make a film
On A TV coming soon to you
But you’d never know if it was real
If it was ever true
I’m looking out the window
Our words fall from the sky
The letters of our love
Are scattered far and wide
But our love was a story that could make a film
On A TV coming soon to you
But you’d never know if it was real
If it was ever true
But if you knew the things we did
Then maybe you’d come to see
But our love is something
You’ll never find on the TV
19 August 2009
15 Where The Locals Meet 03:37
Welcome to my humble house, friend
This is a where I choose to live
Cigarettes are left outside
Shoes can be worn
Magazines lay unread and un-torn
Welcome to the town I live in
It’s been a sunny here for years
But there’s a lake outside of town
Which the locals fill with their fears
And the waves they’re a crashing on our front doors
But we don’t care ‘cause we’re tall
And the storm it comes and goes every year
And I don’t know which way to turn
So lay across my bed my sweet one
I will stroke you ‘til you sleep
And as you dream I’ll take your tears
And your fears
To the lake where the locals meet
Where the locals sleep
Where the locals weep
Welcome to my house, friend
This is the place that I was born
This is the place where magazines go un-torn
And unread
Lay across my bed
The animals are happy and are fed
And this is the place where my fears grow stronger
With every candle that I light
And this is the place where I live, longer
If I go to bed at night
That’s where you’re weak
That’s where we’re in deep
With the secrets I keep
16 Sometimes You See Me 03:20
Well my friends they’ve been going away
Been a long time since they did stay
Don’t know what to do or say
It’s just the way my life has played
Don’t know if I should be sad
Don’t know if I should be true
Don’t know if I should be glad if I never see you
Well my love comes
And my love goes
But sometimes you see me
Sometimes you feel me
Sometimes you don’t know
Well the time it goes
And my love it fades
Don’t want to see you go
But don’t want to have you stay
Well my love comes
And my love goes
Sometimes you see me
Sometimes you feel me
Sometimes you don’t know
Love comes and goes
Dreams will not stay
I want to hold you close
But I’m feeling sad today
Well my love comes
And my love goes
But sometimes you see me
Sometimes you feel me
Sometimes you don’t know
17 Persuading You 03:58
I’m riding the wheel
Going round and round
Listening to the same sound
And it’s going round
I’m watching you spin
I’m feeling everything
It’s hard to know
If it’s time to stay or go
Persuading you persuading me
Persuading you persuading me
Watching the wheel turn
Watching the sun burn
Watching the telephone
And I’m waiting for your return
My love is shining through
You don’t know what to do
But I feel your love for me is
Persuading you persuading me
My advice to you is hope my words are true
My advice to you is keep my trust in you
My advice to you is gonna keep me for you
My advice to you is
Persuading you persuading me
Watching the sun burn
Watching the telephone
And I’m waiting for your return
My love is shining through
You don’t know what to do
But I feel your love for me is
Persuading you persuading me
28th Feb 2009
18 The Lives Of ghosts 04:11
Long time loving always hurts
The ghosts of dreams that we’ve had
Around my mind so sad
I’ve searched the seas to find you
Knocked on every door
But I’m not sure if you
Love me anymore
And I call to you
Through the lives of ghosts
I don’t if I’ll ever
Know you
See you
Touch you
Or free you
Long time love has gone
Don’t know if she’ll hear my song
I don’t if she’ll come and go
I don’t know if we’ll ever know
I don’t if the times
Will help us find
Each others minds
I don’t if the sun will
Cast our shadows
Upon the rows of houses that I search
Upon the pain I feel that hurts
Upon the streets that shine in Winter time
Upon the lives we could have had
In the places where I was so sad
And bad to you
But now there all empty of you
Empty of you
Empty of you
Long time loving always hurts
2007
19 Happy All The Time 05:03
You cannot judge the man by the funeral
You cannot judge a man at all
You cannot hold a precious thing forever
One day you’ve got to let it fall
I cannot keep you happy all the time
I cannot say “I’m yours and you’re mine”
I cannot say, “I’ll love you forever”
But you know I’ll keep you in my mind.
We cannot understand all our feelings
I cannot say I know how you feel
We cannot empathize in every way
But understanding helps the scars to heal.
Now they can not do what isn’t right for them
They can only help when it suits their needs
They cannot do what they do not want
If they want they’ll laugh while you bleed
She cannot say what’s right for her is right for him
They cannot search for meaning without pain
She suffers his light heart life for too long
Now he laughs at her as she takes him back again
You and I cannot deny the judging that we do
When we stand so proud in these justice halls
I used to think these walls could hear
But now I know it’s just these eyes have walls.