Life's a Bowl of Cherries - Benny Lava

Life is just a bowl of cherries Don't take it serious Life's too mysterious You work, you save, you worry so But you can't take your dough When you go, go, go Keep repeating, it's the berries The strongest oak must fall The best things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live and laugh at it all Keep repeating, it's the berries You know the strongest oak has got to fall The sweet things in life to you were just loaned So how can you lose what you never owned Life is just a bowl of cherries So live it, love it, wriggle your ears And think nothing of it, you can't do without it There's no two ways about it You live and you laugh at it all

I found a fire in your shadow I know you are born to be wild In your years you've been alone too Hidin' from the monsters in your head Sugar in a bowl On your coffee table Animals that sleep on your dinin' room floor In your house You are still waitin' for a light to pass by One second at a time Your freckles are gone and now your face is Dry as the walls surroundin' you Coffee keeps you up for hours TV tucks you in at night A picture on the wall Of a friend you used to know The smell of the coffee sitting on the stove In your house You are still waitin' for a light to pass by One second at a time Sugar in a bowl on your coffee table Animals that sleep on your dinin' room floor In your house You are still waitin' for a light to pass by One second at a time

The rain it started tapping On the window near my bed There was a loophole in my dreaming So I got out of it And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open Just my night stand and my dresser Where those nightmares had just been So I dressed myself and left then Out into the gray streets But everything seemed different, and completely new to me The sky the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body And each person I encountered I couldn't wait to meet And I came upon a doctor Who appeared in quite poor health I said there's nothing that I can do for you, you can't do for yourself He said, "Oh yes you can, just hold my hand, I think that, that would help" So I sat with him awhile Then I asked him how he felt He said, I think I'm cured No, in fact, I'm sure of it Thank you, stranger For your therapeutic smile So, that's how I learned the lesson That everyone's alone And your eyes must do some raining If you're ever gonna grow And when crying don't help, you can't compose yourself It's best to compose a poem An honest verse of longing Or a simple song of hope That's why I'm singing, baby, don't worry 'Cause now I've got your back And every time you feel like crying I'm gonna try and make you laugh And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad Then we'll wait for it to pass And I will keep you company for those days so long and black And we'll keep working on the problem We know we'll never solve Of love's uneven remainders Our lives are fractions of a whole But if the world could remain within a frame Like a painting on a wall Then I think we'd see the beauty then We'd stand staring in awe At our still lives posed Like a bowl of oranges Like a story told By the fault-lines and the soil Oh, oh, oh, oh