The Only Way Left to Go is Up

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If we're taking our medicine

Then why do we still feel sick?

If we're practicing self-love

Why won't the message stick?

If we're making new friends

Why are we still sitting alone?

If we're happy with this guy

Then why do we sit and stare at the phone?

If you are happy and you know it

I want to see you show it

And if you are healthy and you're growing

I want to see you hoping

For a new day knowing

That you are goddamn worthy of loving

But if we're drinking our tonic

Of self-loathing and shame

How do we expect to keep living

Off the toxic fumes of blame?

If we want to be happy and well

Isn't it about damn time to climb out of hell?


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