If You're Lucky Lyrics

You live if you're lucky then you die

And I've seen a few things that I wish I hadn't seen

But I won't hide my head in fear or in shame

And I'll see more before my time's through

Now I think my life's been a joke for a while

And there's a hundred million places or things I'd rather be

But I don't know just how to start or even find my own way out the door

Someday the dark is gonna chase out the light

We'll trade the mountains and the trees

And all the birds and all the bees for icy fields and frozen streams

So I say, man, better get yours while you can

Cause' Mother Earth is gonna shake us like a sickening disease

There'll be nowhere left to run and hide from our atrocities

And we all know the jig is up

And we've been caught drunk and high behind the wheel

I've been called a piece of shit and called a saint

And I know from time to time I haven't done the brightest things

But all my friends, I wish you love, I wish you peace, and to my enemies the same

Cause' man it's hard just being human with all these wants and all these needs

All this cursed higher consciousness and bouts with brain disease

All you can do is play the hand that you've been dealt and try to love with all your might

Cause' I feel black, I feel white, I feel heavy, I feel light

I think I'm just a little fried but maybe onto something right

But man it's hard to see the road with heavy eyes when you just want to go to sleep

When the ships have all sailed from the bay

Maybe someday down the line in some greater place or greater time

We will find out who we are or what we are, and that we're maybe all the same

So let's all stand up to the demons that still haunt us from our past

We can scream at them and tell them that we're not so fucking bad

But we still need some time to heal and wipe this dirty filthy guilt off of our hands