The Tears Of A Clown Lyrics

Lyric discussion by shauncreaney 

Cover art for The Tears Of A Clown lyrics by Smokey Robinson

we all put on facades to belie the grief we all feel at times. how honest about how you really are you with your compatriots? everytime i am asked 'how i am doing?' the generic and ubiquitous response is always 'fine'. but i am never really fine, i just respond with that line because it absolves all responsibility on the person asking as to why i am not fine. so smokey knows this about human interaction and makes a song of its intrinsic prevarication.

So true, so very true, i know this feeling oh too well