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 crying 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

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 crying loud

Just seems to be the place

I love the best