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Life is wonderful (life is wonderful) |
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Life goes full circle (yeah, it goes full circle) |
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Life is wonderful (yeah, life is wonderful) |
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Sometimes I hate everyone and everything |
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To the world itself |
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Even though I'm the portrait of health |
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And been blessed with many things |
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Cause when it seems life's beginning to take a splendid lead |
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Suddenly, everything tends to lean negatively |
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I used to feel my luck was bled from me at seventeen |
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Because ever since positive outcomes have been seldom seen |
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They tell me that bouts with doubt can self-fulfill prophetically |
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And that's prolly why John & Paul said that it's best to Let It Be |
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And I use to be the cat with plenty kinetic energy |
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Happy go lucky, Mr. Follow-Your-Dream-And-Set-It-Free |
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But over the years, son, I've been jaded to the Nth degree |
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I hate it, cause my sense of grief is blatant and my friends agree |
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See, people's selfish deeds lead to my bleak expectancy |
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(Like) If I catch the E, I never expect to see an empty seat |
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(Nice) But in typical fashion, this'll pass until my next defeat |
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Until I'm stressing deep and forced to beg and plea |
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Till then we'll sing |
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They say I'm a natural born pessimist |
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And that's fuckin' wild |
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Must've come with my mother's smile and father's bullheadedness |
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I pull ahead and get pulled back, but I keep strugglin' |
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Son, I feel like I couldn't catch a break beat jugglin' |
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Still I reach upward and on, and proceed trudging along |
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As I lead these brothers in arms, to achieve what's in our hearts |
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But the scene's shrugging us off |
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So |
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I just remember that every dream comes with a scar |
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When I see something I want |
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When it seems nothing is wrong |
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Well |
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I gotta keep telling myself to stop |
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Waitin' for the other foot to drop |
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Live in the moment |
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Sit on the throne and just take a look from the top |
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It's a whole other perspective to see the good that you got |
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Now, if it's an omen, quit with the moanin' |
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Don't let it push you to flop |
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That's like being spooked at the doc since you was a baby |
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Still shook from the shot |
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Don't imagine a tragic end to the book, when there's not |
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You gotta try to rewrite in spite of how crooked the plot |
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Now, when you go this long uphill, you lose the will to climb it |
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So I wrote this song to remind me of the silver linin' |
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In a world this wrong, gotta carry a sword that's strong |
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And slice 'em all with smiles |
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Y'all, I fight 'em as I kill with kindness |
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Nobody wants a Bitter Benny or a Debbie Downer |
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Or a Sad Sam that be wrapping a wet blanket around them |
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Keep a sunny disposition, breathe out |
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Cause life has a way of stripping the paint off of your dream house |
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It's simple, indeed these things seem to be easy to see |
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But they easily flee your mind as you find repeated deceit |
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Now, there's reasons the weak of will never dream or believe |
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Before they leap, they concede to defeat and agree to retreat |
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Now, when fatigue has really got you by the balls |
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Remember that if you really didn't believe you'd succeed |
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Then you wouldn't have tried at all |
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So, jump regardless of the consequence |
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Cause even on the night of the apocalypse |
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Everybody's an optimist |
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No matter how hard it seems |
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There's always someone in another position |
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So, when it rains, just hold on |
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When it's gray, just hold on |
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When there's pain, just hold on |
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When it rains |
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And when it rains, think dry skies |
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When it's gray, think bright lights |
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When there's pain, just smile, smile |
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When it rains |
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I know it seems everyday is a struggle to keep yourself outta trouble |
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This modern jungle is jumbled with muddled puzzles to stump you |
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And snipers gunning to stumble you |
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Like you've been hunted |
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Dude, how the hell are you telling us 'Life is wonderful'? |
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Some of you have come to conclusions/assumptions |
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But nothing as true or stunning |
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That misery becomes something that's comfortable |
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Trumping the will to shun it |
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Run from it if you're stuck in a rut or two |
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So, I figured I'd drum up something I could hum to you |
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(Like this) |