If You're Lucky

You live if you're lucky then you die And I've seen a few things that I wish I hadn't seen But I won't hide my head in fear or in shame And I'll see more before my time's through Now I think my life's been a joke for a while And there's a hundred million places or things I'd rather be But I don't know just how to start or even find my own way out the door Someday the dark is gonna chase out the light We'll trade the mountains and the trees And all the birds and all the bees for icy fields and frozen streams So I say, man, better get yours while you can Cause' Mother Earth is gonna shake us like a sickening disease There'll be nowhere left to run and hide from our atrocities And we all know the jig is up And we've been caught drunk and high behind the wheel I've been called a piece of shit and called a saint And I know from time to time I haven't done the brightest things But all my friends, I wish you love, I wish you peace, and to my enemies the same Cause' man it's hard just being human with all these wants and all these needs All this cursed higher consciousness and bouts with brain disease All you can do is play the hand that you've been dealt and try to love with all your might Cause' I feel black, I feel white, I feel heavy, I feel light I think I'm just a little fried but maybe onto something right But man it's hard to see the road with heavy eyes when you just want to go to sleep When the ships have all sailed from the bay Maybe someday down the line in some greater place or greater time We will find out who we are or what we are, and that we're maybe all the same So let's all stand up to the demons that still haunt us from our past We can scream at them and tell them that we're not so fucking bad But we still need some time to heal and wipe this dirty filthy guilt off of our hands