Behind The Smile

 (For Robin Williams, to the tune of “Hold On” by Kansas)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xikm2YS_7xM



Look through the veil hiding your world, what do you see?
Did the road always bring you to where you thought you should be?
The rivers are winding and flow with despair,
And behind your smile, what was it, led you to there?

Flown on,
The Robin’s flown on
With the other birds of Spring,
To the Summer where they sing,
They’ve flown on.

The laughter that rode on the wind, was what your gift gave,
But did it always entrap you and plunge you, deep in the waves?
How did it unhinge, the door to your church,
Slip into the sand, and fill up with the hurt?

Flown on,
The Robin’s flown on
With the other birds of Spring,
To the Summer where they sing,
They’ve flown on.