Lyrics An Unexpected Smile - Natalie Dessay

An Unexpected Smile

Candlelight and conversation, tinkling glasses
scattered laughter, background music, Mozart
and an unexpected smile, like the sun on a late afternoon
The shy uninvited glance, the soft almost undetected sigh
and then a whispered, warm, hello
In an instant, the world slipped away
and though as I recall.
our hands were barely touching,
something magic happened
For it was just as if you held me in your arms
A place I knew
A place I thought I’d felt I’d been before
My unsuspecting heart in a moment was caught unaware
by a soft whispered, warm, hello
It’s starnge the way a heart can fall into the arms of love
From a hoped for, wished for, longed for, prayed for
Unexpected smile