There's a game you can play when you're a little insane dear
It's good to show
Yourself you're bad
Catch your breath in a little green net and be done here
I'm pleased for you
And sad for me
If I recall the only time
I ever saw you really smile
I think it was the day they sent the rain
No matter how ard the rain smashed down
And soaked your face
And ruined your clothes
It never washed away your smile that day.
How can being precious make you angry
How can being wonderful prove virtually fatal
How can being thoughtful drive you crazy
How can being beautiful be sad?
There's a game you can play when you know you're insane dear
I'd like to know
If we're playing now
Your computerised friends love you more than you will know
Or I can tell you
They join your bed at night and keep you safe
If I recall the only time
I ever saw your timeless eyes
Gazing through my head into my heart
Every foot-print you make
Changes somebody's life in a good way
It's time for you
To change your own
How can...
Things'll happen - melodrama is a woman we all know
Things'll happen in a manner, in a manger, on the dole
Things are stranger in the mornings things are sadder when you're sleeping
Or trying to.
Take a minute to remember just exactly where you are
Take your medication with you on your alcoholic falls
Things are stranger in the mornings
Things are sadder when you're sleeping
There's a face that you have when there's no-one around you
It's beautiful
It makes me smile
Every footprint you make
Changes somebody's life in a good way
It's time for you
To change your own.
credits
from Beer and Fools,
released December 10, 2003
Music & lyrics by R. Swayne
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