Live It Up

The sun don't set in Gettysville

The place that I call home,

A thousand people walk these streets

But we're still all alone,

This city's isolation

Like the drug that paves the roads.

Take the subway uptown

To my mother's place.

She's got a thousand friends

But all they know of her's, her face,

All alone inside her head

Her thoughts begin to race.

Live it up

Live it up they say

Live it up

No time to waste your life away.

Next door to me the ceiling leaks

cracks stretch across the walls,

Like skeletons of dreams deceased

Too brittle to evolve,

He lies beneath his plastic sheets

Bitter and blind to all,

Shadows beneath his sunken eyes

Now taint all that he sees,

Like burned and blackened photographs

Life's easier a dream,

He settles for a cheap escape

Forgets all he believed.

Live it up

Live it up they say

Live it up

Things haven't always been this way.

I watched my whole world crumble

As I dried my mother's tears,

And learned to never stumble

As I calmed my father's fears,

They say I've seen a lot

They say I'm wise beyond my years,

Though my castle may have crumbled

I won't face the world alone,

The youth has seen the rubble

And we're ready for the load,

As this city burns

My generation's shouting in the roads.

Live it up

Live it up we say

Live it up

Things haven't always been this way

Live it up

We better turn this boat around

If we keep on following the gold

Someday we are gonna run aground

Live it up

Live it up we say

Live it up

cause now its in our hands to make change