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Short And Sweet Lyrics
You ask
What is the quality
Of life?
Seeking to justify the part you play
And hide
Fearing it incomplete
To try
To make it any more or less than short and sweet
But short
Short is from you to me
As close
As we are wont to try to make it be
We're caught
Watching the darkening sky
Who knows?
Helpless as time itself to hold the time of day
And you
You are a fantasy
A view
From where you'd like to think the world should see
Be true
And you will likely find
A few
Building a vision new and justice to our time
And we
We the immoral men
We dare
Naked and fearless in the elements
And free
Carefree of tempting fate
Aware
And holding off the moral nightmare at the gates
And sweet
Sweet as a mountain stream
We'll look
Toward a new day breaking in the east
We'll meet
As every future dream
Unfolds
And surely quality that is the very least
What is the quality
Of life?
Seeking to justify the part you play
And hide
Fearing it incomplete
To try
To make it any more or less than short and sweet
Short is from you to me
As close
As we are wont to try to make it be
We're caught
Watching the darkening sky
Who knows?
Helpless as time itself to hold the time of day
You are a fantasy
A view
From where you'd like to think the world should see
And you will likely find
A few
Building a vision new and justice to our time
We the immoral men
We dare
Naked and fearless in the elements
And free
Carefree of tempting fate
Aware
And holding off the moral nightmare at the gates
Sweet as a mountain stream
We'll look
Toward a new day breaking in the east
We'll meet
As every future dream
Unfolds
And surely quality that is the very least
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It about life and how short and sweet it is. But you have to carve your path and pray that morally at the end when you approach the gates of heaven you are let in even though you are aware of what you did in life with the gift of freewill.
It ends positivly that with every sunrise and sunset the day will bring quality from us and the future generations to come at the very least.
I think Nels4r2 has a good grasp of the meaning. I would add that "quality of life" is mainly used to describe what we consume. This is why he is treating "quality" as a somewhat negative thing. I think the last line sounds more like; " And surely quality IT is the very least". In the middle of the song, he describes how we put on a front that we'd like the world to see. But if we have integrity, we will find fellow visionaries who are building a world that does justice to our time.