ASIA: The Smile has left your Eyes 12″ Promo E.P 1983 UK. With two unreleased songs that never appeared on a studio album. Check video

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ASIA: The Smile has left your Eyes. Also contains two unreleased songs: “Lying to Yourself” + “Midnight Sun”. Promo copy.

Pomp, circumstance and mush all come together to wonderful effect in this soul- bearing slowie written by the late Asia vocalist/ bassist John Wetton. Self-pitying lyrically, but then we all like a good wallow, don’t we?

Choice lyric: ‘I saw you standing hand in hand/ And now you come to me, the solitary man’

Label: Geffen Records ‎– TA 3836
Format: Vinyl, 12″, 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: 1983
Genre: Rock Prog Rock
A The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Written-By – Wetton*

B1 Lying To Yourself
Written-By – Wetton*, Howe*
never appeared on a studio album

I remember when Alpha was first released and the fans that got it realized that this song was not on it. So they  had to buy the 45 RPM as this song was the B side of The Smile Has Left Your Eyes.

B2
Midnight Sun
Written-By – Downes*, Wetton*
never appeared on a studio album

“The Smile Has Left Your Eyes”, reached number 34 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 25 on the Mainstream Rock charts and was the group’s last major hit.

Great underappreciated song!