I've been feeling so down on myself I've been losing my mind and my health Think that it's time that I try and see life a new way I needed advice so I called up my dad He answered the phone with a joke and a laugh He said to me, "Son, it's your attitude you need a change" I'm a ray of sunshine I fuckin' love life, yeah, that's me Never home being lonely, got plenty of homies calling me up Well, I was crying on the bedroom floor They told me, "Don't be sad anymore" And I said, "Holy shit, that's it, I'm cured" No good moods ever last too long Snap my fingers and it's all gone You can almost see in the wind it's drifting away Sunday night all alone with my thoughts Thinking of someone I've loved and I've lost It's hard but it's right and I knew it was time for a change I'm a ray of sunshine I fuckin' love life, yeah, that's me Never home being lonely, got plenty of homies calling me up Well, I was crying on the bedroom floor They told me, "Don't be sad anymore" And I said, "Holy shit, that's it, I'm cured" Tryin' to fight all the feelings I'm havin' Why not just cave in and let all the feelings I'm feelin' just happen? It's so hard to function when you let a bad thing get you down Don't let a bad thing I let myself cry for a little, then I let the happiness come back around Can I be happy 'bout one thing but sad overall? Choosin' the way that I feel isn't always my call Yeah, this isn't a switch you can turn off and on at your will This is a lever that you've gotta crank Until you feel the way that you wanna feel (wanna feel) Like a ray of sunshine Someone who fuckin' loves life They say I should just decide To look on the bright side I'm a ray of sunshine I fuckin' love life, yeah, that's me ('cause I never) Never home being lonely, got plenty of homies calling me up Well, I was crying on the bedroom floor They told me, "Don't be sad anymore" And I said, "Holy shit, that's it, I'm cured"

Let me speak, let me spit out my bitterness-- Born of grief and nights without sleep and festering flesh Do you have eyes? Can you see like mankind sees? Why have you soured and curdled me? Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? Once I was blessed; I was awaited like the rain Like eyes for the blind, like feet for the lame Kings heard my words, and they sought out my company But now the janitors of Shadowland flick their brooms at me Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) I've lost all taste for life I'm all complaints Tell me why do you starve the faithful? Why do you crucify the saints? And you let the wicked prosper You let their children frisk like deer And my loves are dead or dying, or they don't come near (Antagonists: We don't despise your chastening God is correcting you) Oh and look who comes to counsel my deep distress Oh, these pompous physicians What carelessness! (Antagonists: Oh all this ranting all this wind Filling our ears with trash) Breathtaking ignorance adding insult to injury! They come blaming and shaming (Antagonists: Evil doer) And shattering me (Antagonists: This vain man wishes to seem wise A man born of asses) Oh you tireless watcher! What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: We don't despise your chastening) Already on a bed of sighs and screams, And still you torture me with visions You give me terrifying dreams! Better I was carried from the womb straight to the grave. I see the diggers waiting, they're leaning on their spades. (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow Sure as the sparks ascend) Where is hope while you're wondering what went wrong? Why give me light and then this dark without a dawn? (Antagonists: Evil is sweet in your mouth Hiding under your tongue) Show your face! (Antagonists: What a long fall from grace) Help me understand! What is the reason for your heavy hand? (Antagonists: You're stumbling in shadows You have no name now) Was it the sins of my youth? What have I done to you? That you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true? (Antagonists: Oh your guilt must weigh so greatly) Everything I dread and everything I fear come true (Antagonists: Man is the sire of sorrow) Oh you make everything I dread and everything I fear come true