"A Badtime Story" lyrics - SKYCLAD

Look what I got for Valentine's Day
Lady Luck came along, took my dreams away
And the tears hurt more than a broken nose
I bled from the thorns of a barbed-wire rose
I know that I'm supposed to pray
Thanking God for each new day
Would it disturb his master plan
To one day be a happy man?

I've tried to be positive, strived to be nice
I've turned the other cheek so I'd get hurt twice
I've forced a smile, I've dropped my guard
I've seized the day but it bit me hard
Life's too short, but long enough to gain
The cap-and-gown of misery, suffering and pain
No need to read my diary to see what lies before me
Just another chapter in my Badtime Story

(The end of love and laughter
Now we're happy never after)

My next birthday will, I fear
Be much the same as every other year
Inside the wrapping paper there
Are a few more wrinkles and a little less hair
Another Autumn leaf is turning
One more soul for candle-burning
Hid beneath the sham and glitter
I taste a cake that's stale and bitter

I've tried to be positive, strived to be nice
I've turned the other cheek so I'd get hurt twice
I've forced a smile, I've dropped my guard
I've seized the day but it bit me hard
Life's too short, but long enough to gain
The cap-and-gown of misery, suffering and pain
No need to read my diary to see what lies before me
Just another chapter in my Badtime Story

On my Christmas card last year it said:
"So sorry, Santa Claus is dead
Crawl into the oven when you've had enough
'Cause it keeps sitting here quietly waiting to be stuffed"
What a festive way to go
Here beneath the mistletoe
With open eyes and an open wrist
To vanish from your Christmas list

I've tried to be positive, strived to be nice
I've turned the other cheek so I'd get hurt twice
I've forced a smile, I've dropped my guard
I've seized the day but it bit me hard
Life's too short, but long enough to gain
The cap-and-gown of misery, suffering and pain
No need to read my diary to see what lies before me
Just another chapter in my Badtime Story