Us, old

These are the days we'll look back on and pray for.
It may just be a joke, and we'll laugh, but...
We'll think about the s**t we went though
And how much easier it would have been with faith
That it WILL get better, that we WILL be happy
...That all we have to do is wait
But we know better than to hope
'Cause hope is just a self-fulfilling prophecy that WE'LL be proven wrong
And in the long run, trying for happiness is better than waiting for it
It's just harder to stand, at the time
So in the end, when we ARE happy, we'll laugh
And we'll pray for our past selves, who didn't know any better