And as I'm walking through these streets again
I'm crawling
And as I try to live my life again
I'm falling down

Can you pick me up? Can you let it stop?
Can you make it go away?
Can you pick me up? Can you let it stop?
Can you make it go away?

Won't somebody help me, is it hard
To let me find my way?
Won't somebody love me for a start
I'm laughing as I pray

Where is the road?
I must look at the road
I must pray a little longer
Or laugh a little more



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Laughing as I Pray Lyrics as written by Sarah Bettens Gert Bettens

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    it's such a short song, but it's wonderfull! she is trying so hard to be strong and make something off the mess she has been given, but she fails all the time. So that's why I think "laughing" is sarcastic, or at least a laugh as in: 'well, it couldn't get any worse' You know what I mean?

    FeyTHon March 12, 2003   Link
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    this song--to me anyways--is about a person who feels so completely hopeless that as they pray they laugh as in thinking...it's even ridiculous for God to want to help them. The line "won't somebody love ME for a start...I'm laughing as I pray" always makes me cry because to that person that request is so absurd that even they start laughing at themselves....

    MdmeAntoineon February 19, 2005   Link
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    isn't the last line 'pray a little longer, laugh a little more" not "pray a little longer OR laugh a little more?" It makes more sense without the or. Either way, its a great song. good live, too.

    rikkuon April 12, 2007   Link

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