Feeling Bad In Shanghai

from Show of Hands by Jacky

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Standing in a foreign place
far from everybody else
I felt I had no home within myself
Then I saw the clouds drift by
the bright lights on the towers high
where a million work and dream and sigh

And I think to myself:
When I was feeling bad,
it didn't matter that I was feeling bad
cause I was feeling bad in Shanghai
Yeah, just to grace that golden place
I'd endure a grim malaise
Just come at me

A girl turned my grey skies blue
like all I'd waited for came true
but that dream twisted and turned cruel
so I suffered and I lost my mind
suffered and could see no light
but in her eyes that blue sky would still shine

So I think to myself:
When I suffered a lot
It didn't matter that I suffered a lot
Because I suffered a lot by her side
Yeah, there are things in life beyond joy or pain
I just hope I'll live them again
cause they can turn it all around
Yeah, love can make time stand still
And you never know when next it will
Oh come at me

If you have no rock to dwell on -
don't know who you are, except from
sometimes in a film or in a song
Life only makes some sense
when you close your eyes and pretend
Well, in this town, we all feel wrong

And I think to myself:
If we're all lost and wrong
it doesn't matter that we're lost and wrong
Because we're lost and wrong together
Yeah, the happy people don't exist
or if they do, they're a tiny list
and they're not our problem

All I got's a broken heart,
and time and lights and love and art
Just come at me

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from Show of Hands, released February 12, 2017

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