A Badtime Story lyrics

Look what I got for Valentine`s Day:

Lady Luck came along, took my dreams away,

And the tears hurt more than a broken nose -

I bled from the thorns of a barbed-wire rose.



I know that I`m supposed to pray

Thanking God for each new day.

Would it disturb his master plan

To one day be a happy man?



I`ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.

I`ve turned the other cheek so I`d get hurt twice.

I`ve forced a smile, I`ve dropped my guard

I`ve seized the day but it bit me hard.



Life`s too short, but long enough to gain

The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.

No need to read my diary to see what lies before me -

Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.



The end of love and laughter

now we`re happy never after.



My next birthday will, I fear

Be much the same as every year.

Inside the wrapping there

Are a few more wrinkles and a little less hair.



Another Autumn leaf is turning,

One more soul for candle-burning.

Hid beneath the sham and glitter

I taste a cake that`s stale and bitter.



I`ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.

I`ve turned the other cheek so I`d get hurt twice.

I`ve forced a smile, I`ve dropped my guard

I`ve seized the day but it bit me hard.



Life`s too short, but long enough to gain

The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.

No need to read my diary to see what lies before me -

Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.



On my Christmas card last year it said:

"So sorry, Santa Claus is dead.

Crawl into the oven when you`ve had enough

`Cos it keeps sitting here quietly waiting to be stuffed."



What a festive way to go

Here beneath the mistletoe,

With open eyes and an open wrist

To vanish from your Christmas list.



I`ve tried to be positive, tried to be nice.

I`ve turned the other cheek so I`d get hurt twice.

I`ve forced a smile, I`ve dropped my guard

I`ve seized the day but it bit me hard.



Life`s too short, but long enough to gain

The cap and gown of misery, suffering and pain.

No need to read my diary to see what lies before me -

Just another chapter in my Badtime Story.
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