Life’s a show and we all play a part
And when the music starts
We open up our hearts

It’s all right if some things come out wrong
We’ll sing a happy song
And you can sing along

Where’s there’s life
There’s hope
Everyday’s
A gift
Wishes can
Come true
Whistle while
You work
So hard
All day

To be like other girls
To fit in in this glittering world
Don’t give me songs
Don’t give me songs

Give me something to sing about
I need something to sing about

Life’s a song
You don’t get to rehearse
And every single verse
Can make it that much worse

Still my friends
Don’t know why I ignore
The million things or more
I should be dancing for

All the joy
Life sends
Family
And friends
All the twists
And bends
Knowing that
It ends
Well that
Depends

On if they let you go
On if they know enough to know

That when you bow
You leave the crowd

There was no pain
No fear, no doubt
Until they pulled me out
Of heaven

So that’s my refrain
I live in hell
Because I’ve been expelled
From heaven
I think I was in heaven

So give me something to sing about
Please give me something

Life’s not a song
Life isn’t bliss
Life is just this
It’s living
You’ll get along
The pain that you feel
Only can heal
By living
You have to go on living
So that one of us is living


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    I love the first bit. SMG is perfect.

    lookbeyondon April 02, 2005   Link

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