A song about the difficulties and confusion of living and the hopeless desire to return to the womb, as a sort of pre-life ideal. It’s a mockery of the urge to eliminate the negative aspects of existence by looking towards the past and giving over control for comfort.
Help us. Help us. Help us. Please
Help us. Help us. Help us. Please
If we could see clearly
What we were beside
If there was no desperation
Would we be alive?
If there were no windows
That we sit inside
If there were no ugly feelings
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Would we be alive?
Help us. Help us. Help us. Please
Help us. Help us. Help us. Please
Help us! Help us! Help us! Please!
Help us! Help us! Help us! Please!
HELP US! HELP US! HELP US! PLEASE!
HELP US! HELP US! HELP US! PLEASE!
Help us.. Help us.. Help us.. Please
HELP US! HELP US! HELP US! PLEASE!
Would you make me helpless
So that I could be
Searching for the sight of something that I cannot see
I'd be floating in the ocean
Floating in the sea
Floating in a drifting wind
I wish that I could be
Floating in a liquid
Nice and thick and warm
Floating where there is no pleasure and there is no harm
Life could be so pleasant
If we all could be
Helpless, hopeless creatures
Just marching to the sea
(Help us)
Would we be alive?
(Help us)
Would we be alive?
(Help us)
Would we be alive?
(Help us)
Would we be alive?
(Helpless)
Would we be alive?
(Helpless)
Would we be alive?
(Helpless)
Would we be alive?
(Hopeless)
Would we be alive?
(Hopeless)
(Hopeless)
(Hopeless)
Would We Be Alive was written by John Wright [Nomeansno] & Rob Wright [Nomeansno] & Tom Holliston & Ken Kempster & Nomeansno.
Would We Be Alive was produced by Nomeansno.
Nomeansno released Would We Be Alive on Tue Nov 18 1997.