Smile, come on girl stop crying,
life's too short to stop trying
I want you smile a while for me, Sarah
You got to keep your head up
Come on girl, stop cry ing,
life's too short to stop trying
Come on, smile a while for me, Sarah
You got to keep your head up
You see, Sarah been strug
As a child her father beat her,
she'd be crying the whole night
And her mother didn't care
because she was just a crack addict
week after week she's back at it
So she ain't have no love at home
And it was like as soon as something's
just caught up in a vicious cycle
It wasn't that she couldn't make it stop,
but rather she ain't try to
Cause her hope was fading
more an d more by the day, 'all
so she ain't try to pray, y 'all
Thinking, should I praise God?
Cause he ain't been here for me,
With my eyes drowned in tears to see
She fell blind trying to find her way
In the cold world where you're lucky
if people give you ass the time of day
Just trying to stay above the water
Come on girl, stop crying,
life's too short to stop trying
I won't smile while I'm missing
You got to keep your head up
Come on girl, stop cry ing,
life's too short to stop trying
I won't smile while I'm missing
You got to keep your head up
Her life, took a turn for the better
Thanks to friends who took her in
If you buff a stone long enough,
it's bound to start to shine
And she was on her own two,
and them dicks getting beat
She was working two jobs with a GED
Try ing to save for school
to get a university degree
Put ting in long hours like
bussing tables all the time
Baggin' groceries on the climb,
but somethin' still haunted her
as if her parents never wanted her
this gon' be with me to the end
who cares if I ever see him again
life's too short to stop tryin'
Oh, smile a while for me, son
You got to keep your head up
life's too short to stop tryin'
Won't you smile a while for me, son?
towards the end of her shift
I don't think anything in the world
could've pre pared her for this
She was wiping down the table
She saw a man up at the bar
Looking lonely, so she approached him
Looking in his eyes felt weird,
Asked him how his day had been,
some days I'll leave my bed
I've been sleepwalking through
An d I ain't seen my daughter for years,
but she was still with me
So I could tell her I'm sorry,
Now Sarah realized he was her father and
All she could say while fighting
on her face with tears running down
It's true, what goes around
Come on girl, stop crying,
life's too short to stop trying
I want you to smile a while for me, Sarah
You got to keep your head up
Come on girl, stop crying,
life's too short to stop trying
I want you smile a while for me, Sarah
You got to keep your head up
I want you to smile a while for me,
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