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Verse              Try to be less weepy, you’re probably just sleepy

                        You’re making up that sadness to flaunt your tears

                        You don’t know what I see, I can feel the beauty

                        I can taste the heart grief in all I see

Chorus           There’ll be cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Celebrate intensity

                        And the cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Liberate the fire in me

Verse              I can weep with you, and you can call out, too for a

                        Dream down in your heart that you wish were true

                        Can I see the book where crying shows that you dare

                        To open to a feeling and own it, too

Chorus           There’ll be cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Celebrate intensity

                        And the cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Liberate the fire in me.

Bridge            Wash out all the residue, pour it out to make life new

                        Passion in this moment can heal

                        Cry out all your liquid prayers, open up ‘til you’re bare

                        Reality lies past what you feel

Verse              I may not have a buffer, that doesn’t make you tougher

                        Can you lift the burden in one real tear?

                        I can handle much more, I release what is sore

                        Free your deepest longings with one real tear

Chorus           There’ll be cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Celebrate intensity

                        And the cheers for my own tears, cheers for my own tears

                        Liberate the fire in me

Words & Music © 2016 Martha Groves Perry