• Track: Broken-Hearted Smile
• Artist: Ben Arthur
• Album: Edible Darling
• Year: 2004

Lyrics:

Focal point’s the missing focus
The empty space through the aisle
Sometimes it’s all, it’s all you can see
like the missing tooth in a smile

Sometimes it’s all, it’s all you can see like the missing tooth in a smile

I would walk 1,000 miles
to see your broken-hearted smile
1,000 more to lay down at your door
and after walking through the streets
1,000 years I’d fall down at your feet
and watch your tears washing over me
over me

Define the void is the hard part
the ragged banner now blood-soaked
to wrestle angels without sinning
is like trying to name the smoke

Wander jaundiced through the show
and bite your lip, cry not aloud
if this is what it takes then let me
be the first to step on the shroud

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This rock/folk/country-tinged track has been in multiple playlists of mine for several years now, and I defy you not to get swept away by this infectiously catchy tune about just how far one guy will go to see his baby’s smile.

Ben Arthur is both a musician and novelist, and in addition to writing and recording his own music, he’s written music for multiple artists including Turin Brakes, John Wesley Harding, and My Brightest Diamond. He has toured with a variety of widely known artists, including the Old 97s, Tori Amos, Shawn Colvin, Dave Matthews Band, and Bruce Hornsby.

Other notable tracks from Edible Darling include Keep Me Around and Tonight.

Arthur’s music crosses multiple genres, which makes pigeonholing him into a specific genre pretty difficult. Today’s featured album, Edible Darling, is both a staff favorite here at the Dances with Bass hillside farm and a topic of much discussion insofar as unusual album covers are concerned.

Be sure to visit Ben Arthur’s website, too.

Video:

No official video was made for Broken-Hearted Smile, and we have been unable to locate any live performances on video, so we’ll have to settle for an audio track:

Here is a live performance of Keep Me Around. (Be sure to listen to the lyrics and consider this to be an official request from Mr. Dances with Bass who would appreciate it if you used the caps of his knees as tiny dishes for keys and such.)

About the Album:
Title:	Edible Darling
Release Date:	March 23, 2004
Personnel:	Composer/Primary Artist: Ben Arthur  Cello: Catherine Bent  Drums: Michael Braun, Tony Leone, Dan Vonnegut Keyboards: Bruce Brody  Guitar: Brad Craig, Ian Lovatt, Brian Wohlgemuth  Bass: Byron Isaacs, Ian Lovatt  Mandolin: Danny Knicely
Label:	Bardic
Producer:	Ben Arthur, Ian Lovatt, and Billy Branigan
Performance:	N/A
Track Listing:	1 Mary Ann  2 Tonight 3 Broken-Hearted Smile 4 End of the Day 5 Mercy 6 Instrumental #3 7 Keep Me Around 8 Edible Darling 9 Bloomed 10 Sight of Your Tears 11 Wake 12 Jesus on My Knees
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