Do right, fear what you want
Just what you fall back on
Won't get you out alive
Just the same old talk from the [?]
Can't get what I need to rest
Outside the squalid mess
Too late to start anew
For the longest time, thought we might do

I get so sick with rage at what's being done
It doesn't help me to know I'm not the only one
Can't believe in nothing that I tell myself
Can't rely on the promise that it all will be well
I wish that there was something I could say or do
Doesn't feel any better just to know it's true
When it gets worse all the while
How can I just take it and smile?
All the blind hatred so vile
All the pain, just take it and smile
Take it and smile

Come now, tell me it straight
Just why we ought to wait?
It's not dark, but it's getting close
I don't have to say it, everyone knows
Can't change, reform or align
What's made was by design
And just what will come to pass
Now the fate [succumbs?] , but it won't last

And I could cry with rage at what's being done
It doesn't help me to know I'm not the only one
Can't believe in nothing that I tell myself
Can't rely on the promise that it all will be well
I wish that there was something I could say or do
Doesn't feel any better just to know it's true
When it gets worse all the while
How can I just take it and smile?
All the blind hatred so vile
All the pain, just take it and smile
All the [smite and?] denial
All the sadness, take it and smile
Take it and smile