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Lately I’ve been singing the blues for no apparent reason.
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             C
I lay around on the couch piss and moan dragging everyone down.
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Maybe its always been in my blood stream, maybe daddy was right when he
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             C
told me, boy your just like you mom keep your head up your ass all the time
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I feel like a fool, kicking my self black and blue for the choices I’ve made.
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                      G
Down and out, stuck in the muck sinking fast getting, worse every day.

Chorus
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              C
Good lord want you throw me a life line, a ray of hope in the sunshine.
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Want you help me to find my happy ever after amen.

Verse 2
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 C
Lately taking pills by the handful, doctor told me I’d need ‘em.
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    C
Yeah he wrote me note said I hope you have a hell of time.
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But they’re too good fill me up with a warm rush the news paper don’t’ upset
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           F               C
me as much, they ain’t easy to swallow but its better than sleeping all day
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I’m high as a kite, at least for time being killing the pain in my heart,
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               G
letting go of the guilt and the shame that are tearing my life apart.

Chorus
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Good lord want you keep me from crashing in any way, shape, form or
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        C
fashion, can’t you fill my prescription happy ever after amen

Bridge
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Have mercy on me, hear my pitiful prayer, I need your sympathy, cause it
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          C
feels like nobody cares about me since I quit taking care of myself.


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Oh I am tired, tired of the struggle and tired of the that lies I’ve told
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             G
But I am scared, scared that my story for give me will never unfold.


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                   C
Good lord, I’m not much for confessions, but if you can cure my depression I swear Ill 
better,
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Happy ever after
Happy ever after
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Happy ever after amen