Smilin' in the End

Can't really say it's been a good year
 I know I've see better days
 Some things that shouldn't have been goin' on around here
 Been goin' on anyways
 See I was face down in a pool of my own self-pity
 Gotta pick myself up and get out of this city
 Gotta leave before I hurt someone... yeah
 There's a place somewhere I'm gonna find
 Where I can feel safe and leave it all behind
 Gonna get away, have myself a little fun
 'Cause you can knock me down, run me over
 Back up and run me down again
 You ain't the first, I've been treated worse
 Guess I oughta be more careful choosin' my friends
 Well, you can leave me cold, I'll recover
 Say nasty things about my mother
 Then, you can beat me, mistreat me
 But guess who'll be smilin' in the end
 Playin' in bands since I was a kid
 Always part of the brotherhood
 But a lonely, only child
 Only barely understood
 I was told I'd never make it so many times before
 The best and the brightest had shown me the door
 But the more they tried to hold me back, the stronger I got
 Oh yeah
 They said my songs were too simple, my voice was too weak
 I was too young, too dumb, too much of a freak
 They thought they could write me off
 There's somethin' they forgot
 'Cause you can knock me down, run me over
 Back up and run me down again
 You ain't the first, I've been treated worse
 Guess I oughta be more careful choosin' my friends
 Well, you can leave me cold, I'll recover
 Say nasty things about my mother
 Well, you can beat me, mistreat me
 But guess who'll be smilin' in the end
 I won't say I ain't had my share of good luck
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 Hey, good luck is fine, it just ain't good enough
 No, it ain't enough
 'Cause you can knock me down, run me over
 Back up and run me down again
 You ain't the first, I've been treated worse
 Guess I oughta be more careful choosing my friends
 Well, you can leave me cold, I'll recover
 Say nasty things about my mother
 Well, you can beat me, mistreat me
 But guess who'll be smilin' in the end
 Guess who'll be smilin' in the end
 Guess who'll be smilin' in the end