Secret Smile (song)
"Secret Smile" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. The single, released to American radio on January 12, 1999, gained the band brief international popularity. A live version of the song recorded at The Gorge Amphitheatre, as well as a mix by The Orb had previously been released as a B-side to "Singing in My Sleep". The song was featured in the film "Simply Irresistible" and in the TV series "Charmed" and "Dawson's Creek". Composition. Songwriter Dan Wilson has said in a Songfacts interview that the melody for the song came to him in  a dream, and he woke up in the middle of the night, rushed to a piano, and wrote it down. "..."Secret Smile", the first half of it came to me in a dream. I woke up in very early morning hours with this song playing in my head. I got up, ran to a piano, and I wrote down the words that I heard in my mind and I played the chords on the piano and wrote down the names of the chords. Then I went back to sleep. And then the next day when I woke up, I remembered  the song from the dream. I went to the piano and I saw my notes. I played the song and I thought, "Well, this is great. It must be some song that I've heard before." Then I asked all my friends about it, and they all said, 'No, that sounds like a song of yours.' " Music video. The music video, shot to appear as intimate home footage, features Wilson and his wife playing with a video camera. The paparazzi then arrive and the couple make a run for it. The video was shot in Los Angeles in February 1998  and was directed by British music video director Sophie Muller. Track listings. US promo CD UK CD1 UK CD2 UK cassette single European CD single Australasian CD single Personnel. Personnel are lifted from the US promo CD liner notes.