Maimed Happiness

It's a maimed happiness

I keep trying to acquiesce

It's like a tempestuous child

You play with and humor to keep

Quiet as you possibly can

'Til finally it goes to sleep

Life takes a lot of finesse

It's a maimed happiness

Keep myself to every way

Both refined and uncouth

Then maybe once in a while

I can be with the truth

Don't know if there's that much to be said

For this world or the time that we spend

I doubt that I'd wanna live

This wasted life over again

Yeah, I been to the doctor

He said there ain't much he could do

"You got the human condition

Boy, I feel sorry for you"

There's a sorrowful joy

I've known since I was a boy

Joyful sorrow I guess

It's a maimed happiness