Presidential Silver Lining Live

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I just got up on stage and this is what I said.

[Verse 1]
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I said ev, ev, ev, ev,  everything,
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everything is fucked
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I'm sorry, that's no way to start a show
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I apologized. I started again
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I said, most, most, most, most things are fucked
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But please don't give up on me now
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'Cause I'm here to get you out of this dark hole
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   That's my job after all
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Craigie    make them laugh, make them cry oh
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   That's what it says in your bio
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Oh make 'em cry, that will be easy tonight
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Way too easy tonight
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But make 'em laugh?
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Almost impossible

It's like a funeral out there


[Chorus]
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Don't let the darkness    break you my friends
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There are so many of us and only one of him

[Verse 2]
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So I, I, I, I did my research
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I tried to find some silver lining

But I didn't have much time and it ain't great

So I hope you can appreciate my findings
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Here's what I found

It's historically proven

That when the presidents a republican

We have better music
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Artists are better when they're bummed

That's how it goes, that's how it's done
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When times are good, musicians they get lazy

And the bad music slips out and it drives us all crazy

For example
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In 1995 a new band name Nickleback came out
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And in 1995 the democrats were in the white house
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I'm just saying

Same goes for Linkin Park, Matchbox Twenty, MMMbop
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         I'm just saying
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Macarena, Justin Bieber, all the results of the democrat leaders
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I'm just sayin'
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The world may go to shit
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     But we'll have better music


[Chorus]
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Don't let the darkness    break you my friends
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There are so many of us and only one of him


[Verse 3]
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Now I'm not gonna get up here and tell you things gotta get worse before they get better
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Oh that's just not true

Things could just get better, stay better, continue to get better
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Oh but that's not what things usually do
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Just ask Rosa Parks, Muhatma Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King

Every now and then there's a bunch of bullshit
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You gotta fight it
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And when we fight it
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We always win
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Oh but the pessimist in us want to scream, "Craigie shut up
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What about the battles that we lose?"

I tell ya fool
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Them just the battles that we haven't won yet


[Chorus]
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Don't let the darkness    break you my friends
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There are so many of us and only one of him