Learning to Laugh Again

from Learning to Laugh Again by Brian Clifford Dowling

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Well I've wrestled with my demons
I’ve grown fond of lonely nights
No longer chasing expectations
More concerned with being right
I found cobwebs on my pillow
You know I haven't slept in days
And I've been skimming through your programs, just trying to find my name

Well it's a great big world
It's got you scared to death
Cause you want your failure and you fear success
But if you go on your own I know you'll be something
I'm not a fool I’m not a coward, more simplistic and mannered
I'm a little bit shy and a little bit hammered
If I tied one on I barely could talk to you

And I’m just scared
Of losing everyone I used to call
They never call
If I found you again I would laugh with you friend and put my troubles behind

You say I embrace the pain
I say it won't go away believe me
I'm not the one to walk it off and I don't want to go
You say that I'm a little bit strange
But I say don't you comprehend that I'm not

It's a great big world it's got you scared to death
Because you live for failure and you fear success
And did you mean what you said, when you said about the future
Go on, keep running and never look back here

I'm not fool I’m not a coward, more simplistic and mannered
Got a chest full of hate and a heart full of anger
And I know, don't you try and drag me home
But I'm hammered to death and a hell of a wreck
I watch the room turn on the spin of a deck of a card that you where dealt yourself

I don't know what I said
I don't know where I belong
I don't want to be alone
And all the friends in my life
They’re gone home to hide
I just don't want to be alone

You say that I embrace the pain
I say it won't go away believe me
I'm not the one you thought I was when we were younger
I hope that your life is well
I hope that you’re not in hell like I am
I just don't want to be alone

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from Learning to Laugh Again, released October 1, 2017

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