In search of a smile I followed you from the gloomy night And down off the street The room in the crowd Melted into the winter's cold The welcoming light, a harbour at sea You turned around at the bar-room door I was a spy in your hungry eye Why did you look at me Through eyes of a stranger There never will be A new affair for me With you so near and so far away Your face in the cold Seems so pale and yet so old I notice the crowd had nothing to say You turned around at the bar-room door I was a spy in your hungry eye Why did you look at me Through eyes of a stranger There never will be A new affair for me With you so near and so far away Your face in the cold Seems so pale and yet so old I notice the crowd had nothing to say