La tristesse

[spoken]
It's like the old Dutchman van Gogh said
After cocking and releasing the lever:
               La tristesse durera toujours.
                 The sadness will last forever.

[sung]
Low-down tired & fed up with the life I'm livin'
But they say what makes a man's
The way he plays his hand,
& not the cards that he's been given.
But I'm low-down tired,
So long since I felt the fire,
I'm low-down tired & fed up with the life I'm livin'.

Feel like I'm fadin' & I spent so much time hopin',
Barin' my brain & breakin' my back,
Spewin' my words like an ol smokestack,
Cursin' the universe for all this cosmic jokin'.
But now I'm fadin' fast,
Don't know how much longer I'm gonna last,
Yes I'm fadin' now cause I spent so much time hopin'.

I love you all & please remember me,
The way we were and how I used to be -
Untangled from these bleak, blue lines,
Blood forced through a brambled vein of vines.