If you need a friend I'll lend a sympathetic ear
You'll see - I know you there
Your clock's as stopped as my cares
Hear what I say

Look on the brightside and think it over
Look on the brightside and think it over
Before you're done running around here

You're in a clarity of confusion
A friction between introspection and display
Where a cold hand will dictate an unwieldy fate
That's why I say

Look on the brightside and think it over
Look on the brightside and think it over
Before you're done running around here

Waking up in the Sun, hoping the day has come
War's over for one dead soldier
At the end of a tether - hope
Dangled on a dancing rope
Pored over, over and over
Tearing the labels off

Look on the brightside and think it over
Look on the brightside and think it over
Before you're done running around here

The steeple in the wind bends a sympathetic ear
And says: I know you there
My clock's as stopped as your cares
And it's all because you said