Come Alive

Gather round all you young, heed my warning

When you're young and you're lovely, there are voices

That pull you down like some malady inside us

But not yours and not mine in her likeness

I come alive, I come alive

I come alive, I come alive

This whole week since you arrived

They seek the shade that you can only get from the holes in her body

That's the allure of the smoke and the stars and the call to the oven

And all the women who've fallen before me were tipping the scales

But somehow the allure of the smoke and the stars can no longer pull me

I come alive, I come alive

I come alive, I come alive

In true love to feel right

Allow myself more than those mothers were allowed

And more love in my life than suicide

And if you say, if you do dare to say

That it's all in my mind

When every trouble that you care to relate to was born of a mind

And up against the letters of my betters

Who wrote I should be in the ground

I come alive, I come alive

I come alive, et je revive

I come alive, I come alive

I come alive, I come alive

To feel we are certified

Je revive, et je revive

Les joies de vivre

I come alive and out into the real

I come alive