You Should Be Smiling

I’ve got money in my pocket

Friends who care

A job that’s worthwhile

So people keep telling me

You should be smiling

But now I just feel bad that I ain’t

I got family still living

A wife by my side

A car that’s still running

And people keep telling me

You should be smiling

But now I.. feel bad that I ain’t

Lord knows I’ve been lucky

Stop telling me so

It just makes me sound ungrateful

But my insides are broken

And all I want is more

But what that is I just don’t know

I’ve got clean bed sheets and a working tv

A roof over my head but please stop telling me

You should be smiling cause now I feel bad I ain’t

This house of cards we build for ourselves

Could fold at any turn

But I keep on playing and I keep on laying

Til I hit the deck or a good pay check

I got all my teeth and the hair on my head

My bills all paid but please stop telling me

You should be smiling

Cause now I feel bad that I ain’t