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Anthem of Well-Meaning


I heard you were feeling fine And it's okay, you know It's fine to just be feeling fine And it's okay to be okay you know I'm not sure what you mean When you Say there were plans you had that never changed Well just get on them, you're not dying Just pick up the reins And have a coffee, take it easy Getting laid might clear your mind All things considered, this is not so bad Think of all the things you could have never had There's always places suffering And people who are doing worse than you And maybe it's not what you expected Year after year of being fine But you can't be anything Other than you are Ain't that right Ain't that simple Ain't that easy You can't expect the answers To just fall out of the sky No, we can't be perfect people But I think that we can try And maybe you should be a little grateful For the fact that everyone around you cares about your business And haven't written you off as a lost cause Because if you don't start trying, they might just give up It's not that they don't love you, it's just kind of tough To sympathize with someone who just Doesn't want to Doesn't want to Doesn't want to be And maybe that means it's nothing simple So maybe that means that you should try Cause you can't be anything Other than you are Ain't that right Ain't that simple Ain't that easy You can't expect the answers To just come out of the sky No, we can't be perfect people But I think that we'll survive Why can't you just be happy? This thing can't last that long Your life is pretty great So just tell us what went wrong I'm not saying you deserve this I'm just saying people change themselves You can't be anything Other than you are Ain't that right Ain't that simple Ain't that easy You can't expect the answers To just fall out of the sky No, we can't be perfect people But I think that we can try
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