So you tell me it's getting tough again And I tell you something like the same And we talk and cry Sob and curse But nothing changes, not really I want to be able to tell you That sometime everything will be alright Some time in the future, everything will be okay But it's a fool's phrase Spoken by fools for fools And you are not a fool All I can tell you with any sort of certainty Is that everything will continue to be something Until it doesn't anymore You can take comfort in the fact That your universe will remain unshattered by the unfathomable Until such a time as it is And even then, when your world is crumbling And all sense no longer makes itself apparent Even then you will not be able to conceive any of it Your universe will be intact until it isn't And when it no longer is You will not know And you can take comfort If in nothing else You can take comfort in the fact That at this point in time You know what misery has befallen you You understand the why And whether or not you are capable of fixing it Is neither here nor there Because what is important Is that right now you have the words to describe everything The good and the bad So hold on to that Hold on to your understanding Hold onto your words Hold on to your concepts and values And thank the odds That you have them