The Trade

                                               ©J. D. Carroll
                                      Creative Ventures Music, Inc.


 He really wasn't all that bad looking.
 Everybody said he was going to make it someday.
       Someday.

 The first time I got to look at him
 we were both too young to say
 "What about tomorrow?"
       What about today?

    I always found him to be quite amusing
      and he would always play his part.
    Then one day he turned and said to me,
      "Forget about my smile, what about my heart.
                  What about my heart."

 So we made a sort of promise.
 And I guess he really thought it was true.
      Was true.

 I never thought that I would ever say this
 Now I wish I kept that promise too.
     Kept that promise too.
                Yes, that is true.

   We never spoke much of the times that we made it
       and I always said that we would part.
    But how was I to know that I traded

            That easy smile for my heart.

             Your easy smile for my heart.