Corey Smith - Happy Ever After
Verse 1
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Lately I?ve been singing the blues for no apparent reason.
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I lay around on the couch piss and moan dragging everyone down.
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Maybe its always been in my blood stream, maybe daddy was right when he
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told me, boy your just like you mom keep your head up your ass all the time
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I feel like a fool, kicking my self black and blue for the choices I?ve made.
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Down and out, stuck in the muck sinking fast getting, worse every day.
Chorus
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Good lord want you throw me a life line, a ray of hope in the sunshine.
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Want you help me to find my happy ever after amen.
Verse 2
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Lately taking pills by the handful, doctor told me I?d need ?em.
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Yeah he wrote me note said I hope you have a hell of time.
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But they?re too good fill me up with a warm rush the news paper don?t? upset
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me as much, they ain?t easy to swallow but its better than sleeping all day
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I?m high as a kite, at least for time being killing the pain in my heart,
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letting go of the guilt and the shame that are tearing my life apart.
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Good lord want you keep me from crashing in any way, shape, form or
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fashion, can?t you fill my prescription happy ever after amen
Bridge
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Have mercy on me, hear my pitiful prayer, I need your sympathy, cause it
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feels like nobody cares about me since I quit taking care of myself.
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Oh I am tired, tired of the struggle and tired of the that lies I?ve told
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But I am scared, scared that my story for give me will never unfold.
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Good lord, I?m not much for confessions, but if you can cure my depression I swear Ill
better,
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Happy ever after
Happy ever after
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Happy ever after amen
