Day by Day by Day Lyrics

In an elevator

She says how're you

Living for the weekend

As we do

Not me she says

Seizing every day

Folks like you spend your life

Looking that way

She meant to inspire me

Of that I'm sure

But she never had

To face the world

Day by Day by day

It's like living paycheck to paycheck

Smile to smile

When all you do is survive

You find that after a while

When you need it the most

It's the hardest to find

Dad wrecked his back

Going job to job

Mom was a trust fund baby

Who Wall Street robbed

Generations past

Hard working folks

Spent their lives fighting

Just Not to go broke

And I've stayed true

To my bloodline

This degree that I got

Barely gets me by

Day by day by day

It's like living paycheck to paycheck

Smile to smile

When all you do is survive

You find that after a while

When you need it the most

It's the hardest to find

I can't say there's always

A good way to survive

Except for the sake

Of being alive

Facing this world

Can take its toll

But life's great appeal

Is that you get to grow old

Growing up they told you

Seize every day that you can

For the old stranger's coming

To reap what's left of the land

After years scraping by

For the American dream

The survivors know more

Than it may seem

They can make buns and rolls

Out of plain ole bread

They'll have more pain and laughs

Before they're dead

Though it's hard as hell

Living life this way

I'll never give up

Living day by day by day

Day by day by day

It's like living paycheck to paycheck

Smile to smile

But if you just survive

You'll find that after a while

When you need it the most

It's not that hard to find