that's the way my mom taught me that there'll be days like this they'll be days like this my mama said when you open your hands to catch

and wind up with only blisters and bruises when you step out of the phone booth and try to fly and the very people you want to save are the ones standing on your cape

when your boots will fill with rain and you'll be up to your knees and disappointment and those are the very days you have all the more reason to say thank you because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline no matter how many times it's sent away you will put the wind in winsome

lose some you will put the star in starting over and over and no matter how many landmines erupt in a minute be sure your mind lands on the beauty of this funny place called la