This Is Your Life
Reasonable Dreams
Reflective · Touching · Memorable
#VERSE
Life is a love song, whispered on the breeze
Life is a snowflake from winter’s first freeze
Life’s a piggyback ride through wildflowers in the summer sun
And life’s always growing shorter, from the moment it’s begun
#VERSE
Life’s an endless movie, we enjoy frame by frame
But tragedy can play the “end credits” partway through the game
Life’s a thrill until it’s not, I’m not trying to be bleak
But some paddle the canoe for years and never cross the creek
#PRE-CHORUS
What’s this strange existence where we don’t get to know
The plot of the play before we see the show?
#CHORUS
It’s life, plain and simple
It’s life, blue and green
It’s life, sunshine yellow
Every color in between
It’s life, in breathless darkness
Till you walk in morning’s fresh daylight
When your reflection in the lake smiles lovingly
Remember
This is your life
#VERSE
Life is a circus, fierce tigers, raging clowns
Life is a bomb shelter, “Incoming! Hit the ground!”
Life is a wishing star, praying for the best
Eventually, there comes a day when we fail life’s survival test
#PRE-CHORUS
What’s this strange existence where we don’t get to know
The path of the river till we swim in its flow?
#CHORUS
It’s life, plain and simple
It’s life, major and minor keys
It’s life, with dissonant fortissimos
Which accent pain, regret, disease
It’s life, in breathless darkness
Till you walk in morning’s fresh daylight
When your reflection in the lake smiles lovingly
Remember
This is your life
#BRIDGE
Every player is a Pawn
And every Pawn a King and Queen
How can you be all three at once?
It’s one of life’s great mysteries
But you’re also the bravest Knight
The Bishop of tranquility
The Rook with solid castle walls
Walk past any mirror, that’s the “you” the mirror sees
#INSTRUMENTAL
#VERSE
Life is a big collection of memory trinkets that you’ve found
Life can be a lucky break, like the time you almost drowned
Life is a smile with one you love, a playful purr from your rescued cat
A snuggle in your safe, warm bed
Yes, life is life
And life’s all that
#CHORUS
It’s life, plain and simple
It’s life, a chocolate cake
It’s life, a rainbow popsicle
The sweetest thing you’ll ever taste
It’s life, in breathless darkness
Till you walk in morning’s fresh daylight
When your reflection in the lake smiles lovingly
Remember
This is your life
This is your life
This is your life
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