Life Is A Joke, And I Am The Punchline

Life is a joke, and I'm the punchline

these voices screaming in my head

sometimes they wish that I was dead

perhaps I should have stayed in bed.

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I go to work, each day the same

still losing at this rigged up game

say things I really should refrain

tomorrow, do it all again

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Can’t deviate or change this course

beating life out of this Trojan horse

I’ve lost the power to enforce

feels like I have been cursed

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Just when I think it’s turning ‘round

I’m digging up to solid ground

out of this hole where I’ve been bound

life laughs and shoves my head back down

I see the light and gain some hope

still reaching for that dangling rope

to pull myself up off of this slope

or hang lifeless from its end ~

can’t cope

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So, laugh it up, it’s all fun and games

remind me that I paid to play

step right up, and take your aim

it’s life’s joke, punchlines my name