I’m cut off from the life outside,

But choked by the life within.

I’ve been exposed; I cannot hide,

I wish to be smiling again.

Those on the inside scream and shout,

All on the outside look in.

Inside me, I’m looking out,

I wish to be smiling again.

Love is never truly gone,

Once begun, it cannot begin.

So my love just trudges on,

I wish to be smiling again.

Where I go, my mind goes too,

To places it’s never been.

When I sleep, I still cry for you.

I wish to be smiling again.

Sometimes things appear as though

They’re much too much for men.

Men like me, and we all know

I wish to be smiling again.

Someday soon, the fog will lift,

The mist that has done me in.

And on that day my hopes will shift,

I wish to be smiling again.