Your smile’s been broken
  By a hundred rainy days
  You say you are going down to California
  
  Cause the livin’ easier there
  And nobody knows your name
  It’s only time before they find you
  
  Cause you just can’t name your enemies
  Cause you don’t know what they’ve done
  You get so strung out on their gossip
  It becomes your only source of fun
  
  And April yeah you’re doing fine
  Writing down your column
  In the Portland Times
  Listening to the records
  Of the friends you know
  Trying to hear the stories
  Of the truths they told
  
  Some folks bath in winter skies
  But these clouds are gonna stay a while
  So try your best to show a smile
  Now April...
  
  Now it gets so dark
  Down there in your basement room
  Sometimes it’s days
  Before the sun shines
  
  And you get so tired there
  And your bed fits like a womb
  Sometimes its hard to see
  The point of trying
  
  You get that way
  You wouldn’t stay alone
  You won’t answer the door
  You don’t pick up the phone
  And the smoke turns the sky a hazy blue and those old habits they fall over you
  
  And April yeah your doing fine
  Writing down your column
  In the Portland Times
  Listening to the records
  Of the friends you know
  Trying to hear the stories
  Of the truths they told
  
  Some folks bath in winter skies
  But these clouds are gonna stay a while
  So try your best to show a smile
  Now April...
  
  So try your best to show a smile
  Now April...
  
  Try your best to show a smile
  Now April...