You’ve got to learn to show a happy face
Although you’re full of misery.
You mustn’t show a trace of sadness;
Never look for sympathy.
You’ve got to learn, although its very hard,
The way of pocketing your pride.
Sometimes face humiliation
While you are burning up inside.
Facing reality is often hard to do
When it seems happiness is gone.
You’ve got to learn to hide your tears
And tell your heart life must go on.
You’ve got to learn to leave the table
When love’s no longer being served,
To show everybody that you’re able to leave
Without saying a word.
You’ve got to learn to hide your sorrow
And go on living as before.
What good is thinking of tomorrow?
Who knows what it may have in store?
You’ve got to learn to be much stronger.
At times your head must rule your heart.
You’ve got to learn from hard experience
And listen to advice, and sometimes pay the price,
And learn to live with a broken heart.