Then I'll Be Smiling Lyrics - Still Waiting For Spring - Matt Nathanson

Trailed by a mess 

Of masking tape 

Construction paper 

And the best of intentions 

He tried to patch up every hole as he went 

Back and forth and back again 

And his friends half full of half concerns 

Embarrassed looks and tired words 

They burrowed deeper 

Into the ignorant little lives they preferred 

And he envied their distance 

Their lack of concern 

He thought, 

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Once I shed the whole of me 

Once I shed the whole of me 

Then I'll be smiling 

He cursed himself 

And his instinct to nurse every idea to health 

And all of the falls that he'd spent 

Trying to coax his name from the mouths of success 

He thought 

Once I shed the whole of me 

Once I shed the whole of me 

Then I'll be smiling 

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They litter me with small awarenesses 

Then they ask if I'm good enough 

Litter me with small awarenesses 

Just to wake me up 

Why do the fools wake me up