Bring The Sadness Back In

They were laughing at the bar about the girl with the big butt

Saying they ain't never seen nothing like that slut

And how could anybody ever think about bein' with her?

Joey likes to drink and when he drinks he likes to fight

and his buddies think it makes for a pretty funny Friday night

when Joey gets all liquored up and takes a swing and causes a stir

CHORUS

The whole world is full of laughter

But the high is wearing thin

I'm praying someone somewhere gently

will bring the sadness back in

Underneath the mattress where he keeps his cash

Is a bunch of magazines he calls his secret stash

It's a life that he ain't never lived

But man he'd love to give them dice a roll

And every time he flinches while he's flippin' through the stack

He tells himself that anything that paper might lack

Is made up by the fact that

every woman there is under his control

CHORUS

All these promises of freedom

In the bondages of sin

I'm praying someone somewhere gently

will bring the sadness back in

BRIDGE

Everybody's aching underneath their skin

But all of 'em are laughing as they're bein' sworn in

To testify, so help them God,

that everybody here's having a blast