I Could Laugh

Mama don't understand

she wants to hold my hand

Night and day

She don't like my clothes

They're wearing thin

On her nerves

She don't like my hair

My glorious crown

Brings her down

She won't take me serious

Think I'll join the circus

Be a clown

And they'll all laugh

They'll all laugh

They'll all laugh

But it's not funny

No

I'm restless

Wanna bust out of my skin

Got a rocket

In my pocket

Got no fuel

No charted course

Got no direction

No, they did not give me those in school

Yes, I've been a fool for cool

But no kind of hair, no shoes, no jackets

Gonna help me hack it, hack it

Hack it to pieces, man

I've had it

And you can have it

Chorus

Well, I wonder what will

Get me off

So I pick and choose and take

And in a couple years

You're right

I'm left

With a great big heartache

So deep and wide

That no matter what

I stuff inside

It's empty

Just the way it came

It's a crying shame

But all the same

Chorus

Should I recall

All the people I have hurt

Along the way

And should I try

To justify

Every wrong I did not right

But two wrongs don't make it right

And so it keeps me up at night

And I lie awake

And while away the meanwhile

And meanwhile......

Meanwhile I dwell

On the baby that I killed

Or the drink I should have not refilled

And every heart I broke in 2

And left to die

Bleeding on the roadside

Or I could sit

And let my eyes

fill with mist

For every girl that

I should not have kissed

And all the broken family ties

The loved ones

I have missed

Yes, I have mist in my eyes

And so I cry

But why should I should I

Chorus

And everything I've got

I'm gonna lose

Both good and bad

Will pass

And what next

What lies

Beyond the broken dreams

And shattered mirrors

I keep looking in

To check my luck

Or skill

But only pride keeps staring back

And stil I laugh

Still

I laugh

And none of this, of course,

Will stand

When I stand before the man

On that great day

Of the great divide

When all the kings and queens

Will have their closets emptied

And the bones will all fall out

'Dem bones 'dem bones 'dem dry bones

Will not fail

Dead men will tell tales

And you can laugh

And I can laugh

And we can laugh

But it's not funny