| Look what I got for Valentine’s Day:
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| Lady Luck came along, took my dreams away,
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| And the tears hurt more than a broken nose —
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| I bled from the thorns of a barbed-wire rose.
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| I know that I’m supposed to pray
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| Thanking God for each new day.
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| Would it disturb his master plan
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| To one day be a happy man?
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| I’ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
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| I’ve turned the other cheek so I’d get hurt twice.
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| I’ve forced a smile, I’ve dropped my guard
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| I’ve seized the day but it bit me hard.
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| Life’s too short, but long enough to gain
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| The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.
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| No need to read my diary to see what lies before me —
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| Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.
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| The end of love and laughter
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| now we’re happy never after.
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| My next birthday will, I fear
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| Be much the same as every year.
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| Inside the wrapping there
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| Are a few more wrinkles and a little less hair.
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| Another Autumn leaf is turning,
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| One more soul for candle-burning.
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| Hid beneath the sham and glitter
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| I taste a cake that’s stale and bitter.
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| I’ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
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| I’ve turned the other cheek so I’d get hurt twice.
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| I’ve forced a smile, I’ve dropped my guard
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| I’ve seized the day but it bit me hard.
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| Life’s too short, but long enough to gain
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| The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.
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| No need to read my diary to see what lies before me —
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| Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.
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| On my Christmas card last year it said:
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| «So sorry, Santa Claus is dead.
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| Crawl into the oven when you’ve had enough
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| 'Cos it keeps sitting here quietly waiting to be stuffed.»
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| What a festive way to go
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| Here beneath the mistletoe,
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| With open eyes and an open wrist
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| To vanish from your Christmas list.
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| I’ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.
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| I’ve turned the other cheek so I’d get hurt twice.
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| I’ve forced a smile, I’ve dropped my guard
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| I’ve seized the day but it bit me hard.
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| Life’s too short, but long enough to gain
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| The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.
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| No need to read my diary to see what lies before me —
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| Just another chapter in my Badtime Story. |