The Shadow of Your Smile

Halloween 2025

The Shadow of Your Smile

Music by Johnny Mandel, with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster

The shadow of your smile,

when you are gone

Will color all my dreams

and light the dawn.

Look into my eyes,

my love,

and see

All the lovely things you are

to me.

Our wistful little star

was far too high

A teardrop kissed your lips

and so did I

Now when I remember spring

All the joy that love can bring

I will be remembering

The shadow of your smile.

One day we walked along the sand

One day in early spring

You held

A piper in your hand

to mend its broken wing

Now I shall remember

many a day

and many a lonely mile

The echo of a piper’s song

The shadow of a smile . . .

The shadow of your smile

when you are gone

Will color all my dreams

And light the dawn.

Look into my eyes, my love,

and see

All those lovely things

you are to me.

That wistful little star

was far too high

A teardrop kissed your lips

and so did I

Now when I remember spring

All those joys that love can bring

I will be remembering

The shadow of

Your smile.