Alive

[Verse 1]
Now you can justify my love with the sun, moon and stars,
Those cosmic components that recreate who we are,
And you can reduce all of my existence to “cash, clothes and cars”,
Splash my face upon a billboard and call me a star

For that which never truly shines,
Gets quickly lost in the dark,
Leaving me now searching for a value,
That was never there from the start

So can I look into myself?
And see the abundance of my wealth?
My inner treasure beyond the measure,
That outweighs the wonders of their spell

‘Cause I gotta live
I gotta live

[Chorus]
We just got to live
Upright
We just got to live
Through the music

[Verse 2]
See my mind was raised among the mountain ranges,
As I watched the ground kiss the sky in evolutionary stages,
So you see that everything that starts off low eventually raises up,
And even that which seems inactive
Eventually rises out of the rough

Because nothing truly stays still,
In this universe of motion,
And deep down inside our cores,
We know that the lava’s ever flowing

And Time is ever knowing,
And our minds are ever growing,
So you can write our fields off as being barren,
But the seeds are ever sowing

Because Life doesn’t ask “Why?”
“Where?”
“When?”
or even “How?”
It simply fills the emptiest of vessels,
And regenerates them now

So we gotta live
We gotta live
We gotta live
We gotta live
We gotta live

[Chorus]
We just got to live