Take it and Smile

[Verse 1]
Do right, fear what you want
Just what you fall back on
Won't get you out alive
Just the same old talk from the [?]
Can't get what I need to rest
Outside the squalid mess
Too late to start anew
For the longest time, thought we might do

[Chorus]
I get so sick with rage at what's being done
It doesn't help me to know I'm not the only one
Can't believe in nothing that I tell myself
Can't rely on the promise that it all will be well
I wish that there was something I could say or do
Doesn't feel any better just to know it's true
When it gets worse all the while
How can I just take it and smile?
All the blind hatred so vile
All the pain, just take it and smile
Take it and smile

[Verse 2]
Come now, tell me it straight
Just why we ought to wait?
It's not dark, but it's getting close
I don't have to say it, everyone knows
Can't change, reform or align
What's made was by design
And just what will come to pass
Now the fate [succumbs?], but it won't last

[Chorus]
And I could cry with rage at what's being done
It doesn't help me to know I'm not the only one
Can't believe in nothing that I tell myself
Can't rely on the promise that it all will be well
I wish that there was something I could say or do
Doesn't feel any better just to know it's true
When it gets worse all the while
How can I just take it and smile?
All the blind hatred so vile
All the pain, just take it and smile
All the [smite and?] denial
All the sadness, take it and smile
Take it and smile

[Instrumental Outro]