Adam Cohen Lyrics
"Cry Ophelia"

Something went wrong, you're not laughing.
It's not so easy now to get you to smile.
You gotta be strong
To walk these streets and keep from falling
But when you're not, just let yourself cry.
You've been working hard just trying to pay the rent
Trying to draw the line
Between who you are and who you invent
But if you throw a stone,
Something's gonna shatter somewhere.
We're all so fragile, we're all so scared.

You say you wanna learn
How to live your life without tears
But we've been trying to do that for thousands of years.

So go on and cry Ophelia,
It's the only thing to do sometimes.
You know I'm crying too, right there with you.
It's alright, Ophelia, everybody cries.

Now me, I thank God for my bad memory.
I've forgotten some of the stupid things that I've done.
I've come to a little wisdom through a whole lot of failure
So I watch more carefully what rolls off my tongue.

You pray for rain but you don't want it from a storm.
Yeah! You find a rose and cut your finger on a thorn.

So go on and cry, Ophelia,
It's the only thing to do sometimes.
You know I'm crying too, right there with you,
It's alright, Ophelia.
Everybody cries, Ophelia,
It's the perfect thing to do sometimes.
You know I'm crying too, right there with you.
It's alright, Ophelia, everybody cries, Ophelia.
Cry, Ophelia.

You know I'm crying too, right there with you.
It's alright, Ophelia, everybody cries.