Lifer

[Verse 1]

You're worried I've given up

Have lost direction for the cause

Have traded truth for confidence

Went back on all my promises



[Verse 2]

I am not old but I’ve become

Afraid of things I never was

And stumbling on without a pause

Can only go so long



[Chorus 1]

Did you say that I was the lifer?

Did you say that life could be better?



[Verse 3]

It seems to those who know me best

My luck is wild and in excess

I don’t know why some suffer so

And others never fear to go



[Verse 4]

I won’t reduce myself to air

Undo myself for your affair

I’ve shown you everything I am

You choose or not to understand



[Bridge]

There is a logic to the rule

The end is kind, the mean is cruel

I have to love the life I make

Make up for all the space I take



[Verse 5]

Mistaken for an oversight

The absence of my appetite

The source of all my arrogance

I left it up to chance



[Chorus 2]

I believed that I was the lifer

I believed that life could be better



[Verse 6]

I want to see you rise again

To see life in your eyes again

To feel your pulse is beating strong

To prove all of us wrong



[Chorus 3]

Will you say that you are the lifer?

Do you think that life could be better?

Will you say that I am the lifer?

Do you think that life could be better?