Ain't It the Life

Foo Fighters

Dear Haley, can you save me from
The borrowed cloud I'm on?
All you gotta do is try
Pray you're just getting by
Hey wait, I thought you made it
How'd your bottled crown fall off
Tell me how'd you get so tired
Faded down to the wire

Try livin' a lie
And kickin' out the same old guise
Wastin' time

So very ordinary
Wait until my bomb goes off
See the actors run and hide
Fake it all in stride
One day we all can say we're gone
And haunt the ground we're from
Everything's so open wide
Here within the divide

Try livin' a lie
And kickin' out the same old guise
Wastin' time

Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
Ain't it the life? Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
Ain't it the life? Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain't it the life?
Just sail on by

Try livin' a lie
And kickin' out the same old guise
Wastin' time

Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
Ain't it the life? Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
Ain't it the life? Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain't it the life?
Ain't it the life?


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    I love this song its so melloand peaceful. The melody conveys a sense of deppression or bordem. The lyrics almost poke fun at the person "Hailey" I tend to think of this song as a respnse to the fakeness Dave was in when he wrote this. In hollywood he was just another star, who would party and waste his life. This is a response to that life and how he just kept sailing on by living the life with absolutely no reward for him.

    eatlotacheeseon December 07, 2005   Link

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