Painter Fingers - I Only Laugh Lyrics

I only laugh to keep from crying
We only live to keep from dying

Good morning
Go straight to first period
Don't stand around
Don't wait to see your friends

Then we wonder why
They are so rebellious
And to think it gets much worse
Than this

I can't teach them about civil war
If we can't discuss the reason
We can't talk about mass shootings
If we are not allowed

I only laugh to keep from crying
We only live to keep from dying

Meanwhile, Mom's at home
With deep dementia
The news is causing mass hysteria
Then I have to smile
And talk up some bright future

Well
I can't stand and tell
A bold-faced lie
About how my country
Has always been
The good guy

I only laugh to keep from crying
We only live to keep from dying

We can't act surprised at violence
We can't act surprised at all
With all these years and years
Of evidence
We can't count the deaths
Of children
If we are not allowed
To blame the gun

I only laugh to keep from crying
We only live to keep from dying