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Does Your World Hang Low?

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I originally wrote this in 2021 to try to encourage a friend who was going through a bad patch. It worked and they took another look at their life and got through it.
I have had to change one line because it contained a word that PS apparently didn't like. Still, the general message is the same.
For those of you who know the song, this is written to the same rhythm as "Does Your Hair Hang Low."

Does your world hang low? Does your humour ebb and flow? Do you feel like you’re a flop And you’re drowning down below? Are your moods like running water Won’t stay stable when they oughta? Does your world – hang – low? Is your life a drag? Do you feel like a rag? Does it seem as though you’re flound’ring Through impenetrable slag? Is the whole thing never right? Not worth keeping up the fight? Is your life – a – drag? Do you hide your face? Do you feel a disgrace? Are you constantly avoiding Being with the human race? Has your life degenerated? And your world disintegrated? Do you hide – your – face? Are you fighting back? Are you taking up the slack? Will you give in and surrender Or go back on the attack? Tell the world it hasn’t mastered THIS unconquerable bastard! NOW you’re fight – ing – back!

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