Smilin' in the End

Can't really say it's been a good year

I know I'll see better days

Some things that shouldn't have been going on around here

Have been going on anyways

I was face down in a pool of my own self-pity

Gotta pick myself up and get out of this city

Gotta leave before I hurt someone

There's a place somewhere I'm gonna find

Where I can feel safe and leave it all behind

Gonna get away and have myself a little fun

'Cause you can knock me down, run me over

Back up and run me down again

You ain't the first - I've been treated worse

Guess I oughta be more careful choosing my friends

Well, you can leave me cold - I'll recover

Say nasty things about my mother

Well, you can beat me, mistreat me

But guess who'll be smilin' in the end?

Playin' in bands since I was a kid

Always part of the brotherhood

But a lonely, only child

Only barely understood

I was told I'd never make it so many times before

The best and the brightest had shown me the door

But the more they tried to hold me back, the stronger I got

They said my songs were too simple, my voice was too weak

Said I was too young, too dumb, too much of a freak

They thought they could write me off

But there's somethin' they forgot

'Cause you can knock me down, run me over

Back up and run me down again

You ain't the first - I've been treated worse

Guess I oughta be more careful choosing my friends

Well, you can leave me cold - I'll recover

Say nasty things about my mother

Well, you can beat me, mistreat me

But guess who'll be smilin' in the end?

I won't say I ain't had my share of good luck

Good luck is fine, it just ain't enough

'Cause you can knock me down, run me over

Back up and run me down again

You ain't the first - I've been treated worse

Guess I oughta be more careful choosing my friends

Well, you can leave me cold - I'll recover

Say nasty things about my mother

Well, you can beat me, mistreat me

But guess who'll be smilin' in the end?