I'm Alive

I told them my story

Then I broke down and I cried

I stood like a soldier

While I crumbled inside

I took all the credit when it was never really mine

I let my heart break down with bruises and cuts

I heard all the secrets and I kept my mouth shut

Been given all the chances I deserved

I screwed em all up

With my finger on the trigger

I shot and I missed

I smoked like a chimney I drank like a fish

I crash, I burned, I lost from all of this

But I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

Well make no mistakes I have been down this track

I've felt what it's like to have a knife in my back

I took all the sorries and I stuffed them all in a sack

I turned to the experts but that didn't work

Got down on my knees and I prayed but it hurt

I thought I struck gold but it turned out to be dirt

I took all the blame, I swallowed my pride

I chose to get in and taken for a ride

I won't be showing up to testify

But I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

And through all the blood and the sweat and the tears

Things ain't always what they appear

I made it through the hardest fucking year

But I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive

Am alive and I am well

And I got me another chance

And I got more stories to tell

And I can fit inside a mansion

I got nothing left to lose

And I got nobody to answer to

And I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive