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Everybody’s Broken

Dec 2016

BY JOHN ANSELL



Everybody’s right

And everybody’s wrong

Everybody’s weak

And everybody’s strong

Everybody’s trying

And everybody fails

And everybody’s carriage

Will at some time leave the rails

Everybody’s crying

And everybody grieves

And everybody’s wearing 

Their psychoses on their sleeves

Everybody’s happy

And everyone’s in pain

And nobody’s as crazy

As the one who thinks she’s sane

Everybody’s struggling

Sometimes just to live
And no one does it harder

Than the one who won’t forgive

Everybody’s broken

And everyone’s a mess

But no one’s as tormented

As the one who won’t confess

Yes, everybody’s weak

And everybody’s strong

And everybody’s body

Wasn’t built to last too long

So everybody’s trying

Their hardest to survive

Yet everybody’s dying

We don’t make it out alive

Everybody’s warm of heart

And everybody’s not

But nobody is colder

Than the one who thinks she’s hot

Everybody wants to win

But everybody can’t

Cos everybody’s broken

Specially those who know they aren’t

Everybody’s broken

It’s the one unbroken rule

He who claims to be unbroken

Is everybody’s fool

Everyone’s a sinner

And everyone’s a saint

And everyone’s a mirror

So be careful who you paint

Everybody’s wounded

But it’s time we all were healed

For we all swing the sword

And we all hold the shield

Nobody goes walking

In his father’s shoes

Everybody’s broken

But we still are free to choose

Everybody’s broken

And everybody’s blind

Yet everybody cruel

Has the power to be kind

Everybody’s broken

But who can you attack

When every pointing finger

Comes with three more pointing back?
 

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