I just came to smell the flowers here in someone's darkest hour

I don't even know the one they've laid to rest

But anyplace there's a crowd and anywhere they're cryin' loud

Just seems to be the place I love the best



Surrounded by the blues in a place that losers use

Where one smile cost at least a million tears

Look in for my past in the bottom of a glass

The only place I've looked for many years

Now the ground don't seem so very low when you're down about as far as you can go

And it's pretty hard to smile while the whole world laugh in your face

And with no will left to live the world moves fast while you lie still

Too weak to stand and just not enough man to join the race

So I just came to smell the flowers...