Lying awake in bed, unable to sleep, and in pain; this sounds familiar to many who live with chronic pain. You may actually dread going to bed knowing that the pain will rudely interrupt your desperately needed recovery time.

It's one a.m. and you are just staring into the darkness wondering: "Why?" and "Is there anyone more messed up?" Maybe, you make a wish for the pain to go away if you "believed in that ****".

After that kind of night, it is so hard to have a good day. Everything seems worse when you have not slept well. Can you then will yourself to have a good day? Try repeating this to yourself: "It's gonna be alright, no matter what they say. It's gonna be a good day." It's worth a try.

With a little music therapy, life can be O.K. "Just wait and see." Like a mantra, music can give you a self full-filling prophecy of better days. So, next time you are lying awake in bed at one a.m. just remember that in such darkness not all is doom and gloom, "at least the stars are bright".

Good Day by Jewel

I say to myself, Self
Why are you awake again? It's one a.m..
Standin' with the fridge wide open, starin.'
Such a sight, florescent light-

The stars are bright- might make a wish,
If I believed in that shit,
But as it is I might watch t.v.
Cause it's nice to see people can be
More messed up than me

I say to myself
As I Smile at the walls
Let myself fall

CHORUS:
Its gonna be alright
No matter what they say
Its gonna be a good day
Just wait and see
Its gonna be alright
(Good Day continued)

Cause i'm alright with me
It's gonna be, it's gonna be- its gotta be

I shiver shut the door
Can't think standin' here no more
I'm alone my minds racing heart breaking
Can you be everything I need you to be?
Can you protect me like a daughter
Can you Love me like a father
Can you Drink me like water
Say I'm like the desert
Just way hotter

The point of it all
Is that if I should fall
It's still your name I call

CHORUS:
Its gonna be alright
No matter what they say
(Good Day continued)
Its gonna be a good day
Just wait and see
Its gonna be ok
Cause I'm ok with me
Its gonna be, gonna be, as long as we

Laugh out loud-laugh like we are mad
Cause this crazy mixed up beauty is all that we have
Because what's love, but an itch we can't scratch
A joke we can't catch
God but still we laugh

Bridge:
Get back in bed
Turn off the TV
You say it'll be alright, baby
Just wait and see

CHORUS:
Uh-oh I'm awake again, it's one am
Staring
Such a sight
At least the stars are bright