The Price Of Life Lyrics & Chords By Diesel Park West

Mama was a drinker, daddy was a thinker
They both did it to excess
Until they got busted by the brain police
On patrol inside their heads

The offspring, they did okay
Both loving and dependable
But the girl and boy knew deeper inside
There was something they hadn't been told

About the price of life
The real cost of things
When a moment's pleasure they took
When defenses are down
Yeah, the price of life looks good

I'm sitting in the park on top of the world
Wondering how it all gets twisted
But it's gonna get better now the famine's over
I read that in this paper

But that's the price of life
Yeah, the real cost of things
When a moment's pleasure you took
And defenses are down
Yeah, the price of life looks good

I wake up in the morning as an optimist
And Mother Nature still has her rhythm
But on closer inspection it doesn't look so good
I guess there's something important missing

And that's the price of life
Yeah, the cost of things
When a moment's pleasure you took
When defenses are down
Oh, the price of life looks good

You've got to do what's expected of you
If just for the sake of the rest
I know sometimes being mean and cruel
Seem the things you do the best

And that's the price of life
Yeah, the impossible things
When a moment's pleasure you took
When defenses are down
Oh, the price of life looks good

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