[00:00.00]I once saw silver linings
[00:03.93]now I only see clouds
[00:07.44]Where once I had a thousand friends
[00:11.23]now got a crowd
[00:14.65]I used to say that everything
[00:18.30]will work out in the end
[00:21.70]but to the beaten and heartbroken ones
[00:25.78]you just can't pretend
[00:28.48]
[00:31.18]Where once I had an open heart
[00:34.44]now I close it like a fort
[00:37.64]With great stone walls and archers poised
[00:41.71]and a guard at every door
[00:45.49]And if a stranger should come knocking
[00:49.06]on a cold and lampless night
[00:52.66]with a cloak and dagger close at hand
[00:56.56]I'll be safe inside.
[00:59.70]
[01:01.40]Here's three cheers for the beaten
[01:05.50]Three cheers for the broke
[01:08.49]Here's three cheers for the wind-blown ones
[01:12.67]at the bottom of that rope
[01:15.02]Here's three cheers for those
[01:19.32]cannot say the glass is half full
[01:23.03]Here's three cheers if you can't count sheep
[01:27.19]and you end up counting wolves
[01:30.83]
[01:34.74]The birds are singin' in the trees
[01:38.30]but little do they know
[01:42.01]the very limbs they stand upon
[01:45.53]will be buried in the snow
[01:49.37]And the wavin trees and buzzin bees
[01:52.95]and flowers pink and red
[01:56.23]will all turn grey and all fall down
[02:00.24]when summer ends
[02:04.83]
[02:05.75]All that's good and right I've seen
[02:09.06]you could balance on a knife
[02:13.03]You may call it cynical
[02:16.27]but I just call it life
[02:20.19]And those few with golden souls
[02:23.60]will be trampled in the ground
[02:27.51]under the boots of those marchin fools
[02:31.11]who always run this town
[02:33.62]
[02:35.91]Here's three cheers for the beaten
[02:40.25]Three cheers for the broke
[02:43.01]Here's three cheers for the wind blown ones
[02:47.20]at the bottom of that rope
[02:50.33]Here's three cheers for those
[02:53.78]cannot say the glass is half full
[02:57.47]Here's three cheers if you can't count sheep
[03:01.69]and you end up counting wolves
[03:05.72]
[03:09.46]Is there nobody out there to lift
[03:12.73]the curse upon this place
[03:16.43]for sake of all us rats down here
[03:20.19]circling a maze?
[03:23.74]If a message in a bottle
[03:27.07]then I'd send it off in haste
[03:30.79]in a rocket at the speed of sound bound
[03:35.33]for outer space!