desperate times/measures

these are ugly times. it's a daily nightmare and a struggle to make it through to bed time. i never could have imagined things being like this, and i've been through some struggles in my time. i just want it all to go back to the way it was, once upon a time. it scares me to death that once upon a time is gone forever. as my man Adam Horowitz has said, more tunefully than i will here: "Somethings Gotta Give."