Live It Up

Live It Up - Willy Mason

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 it's in our hands to make changeange