Die Laughing

from Songs From the Show by Alacartoona

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lyrics

here we go again
drinking with our memories
groping for safe ground
retelling well-worn histories

i'll help you remember
you help me forget
i'll make you laugh whenever
you pay too much for what you get

let's all pretend we're happy
let's raise our glasses high
it's all some sort of comedy
let's laugh until we cry

it all seemed so good...
was life so easy then?
what have we become...
just shadows of our dreaming?

you help me remember
i'll help you forget
our beautiful potential
lost hope's regret

let's all pretend we're happy
let's raise our glasses high
it's all some sort of comedy
let's laugh until we cry

let's all pretend we're happy
let's raise our voices high
yes, it's all a tragic comedy
let's drink our lives goodbye

yes, it's all some sad comedy
let's laugh until we die

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from Songs From the Show, released April 21, 2005
Words: McGrane, music: Hankel

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Alacartoona Kansas City, Missouri

Alacartoona's stage show is a visual extension of their all-original songbook. Utilizing a stripped down ensemble of accordion, bass, and drums, with the occasional guitar or brass, they bring to life vivid tales of love and loss, of bedrooms and back alleys, of the solitude and the camaraderie of sex, drugs and cabaret. ... more

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