Life is Beautiful

Sixx: A.M.

You can't quit until you try
You can't live until you die
You can't learn to tell the truth until you learn to lie

Can't breathe until you choke
You gotta laugh when you're the joke
There's nothing like a funeral to make you feel alive

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful
Will you swear on your life
That no one will cry at my funeral?

I know some things that you don't
I've done things that you won't
There's nothing like a trail of blood to find your way back home

I was waiting for my hearse
What came next was so much worse
It took a funeral to make me feel alive

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful.
Will you swear on your life
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Alive
Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful
Will you swear on your life
That no one will cry at my funeral?

Just open your eyes
Just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful
Will you swear on your life
That no one will cry at my funeral?


Lyrics submitted by UnholySoldier

Life Is Beautiful Lyrics as written by James Michael Darren Jay Ashba

Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    This is such an intense song, it gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it. James' voice is just perfect for this song with this meaning. It obviously is self-explanitory if you sit down and read the lyrics. When the tough gets going...you remind yourself that life is beautiful. If that made sense. I don't know. It's just that, he's saying that you don't really see the full potential of life until you were put in a situation that there's no choice except living or going on to something else, whatever is after this. Just like what loudchild said up there about Nikki's heroin overdose.

    That's what I say.

    JuliaLaughedon May 31, 2010   Link

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