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For too many winters, in my stocking there's coal
For too many mornings, just gruel in my bowl
Life is grim, time's unsparing
The older you think, the more it's wearing
Pain will visit you, and you will obey
And however it ends, there will be shame

But it's a wonderful life
It's a wonderful life

I've been living like a dead man, racking up new debts I can't repay
While in my ears carols sweetly drip and urge me to end it all today
I've stopped waiting for some ingenue
Who‘ll open my heart like a rose unbruised
With a look to make this world feel new
That tells me all these feelings will be unrefused

Chorus

And what's so wonderful, I hear you say
With this brutality and callousness and greed on display
And the superficial friendliness that hides the cold indifference
To savage acts of selfishness slathered with praise
But we're breathing and we're feeling and we've got our rage
And the irrational hope we can make something great

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I said, it's a wonderful life
Yeah, it's a wonderful life
Oh, it’s a wonderful life

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from Seasonal Affective Disorder, the Album, released December 4, 2020

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Patrick O'Donnell New York, New York

In 1994, Patrick O’Donnell founded the independent label Škoda Records, based in Washington, DC, which was active through the early 2000’s (most notably releasing records by the Czech band Už Jsme Doma). Seasonal Affective Disorder, the Album, is his fourth solo album. He lives in New York City. ... more

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