Ain't It the Life

Album: There is Nothing Left to Lose (1999)
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  • Dear Haley, can you save me from
    The borrowed cloud I'm on?
    All you gotta do is try
    Pray you're just getting by
    Hey wait, I thought you made it
    How'd your bottled crown fall off
    Tell me how'd you get so tired
    Faded down to the wire

    Try livin' a lie
    And kickin' out the same old guise
    Wastin' time

    So very ordinary
    Wait until my bomb goes off
    See the actors run and hide
    Fake it all in stride
    One day we all can say we're gone
    And haunt the ground we're from
    Everything's so open wide
    Here within the divide

    Try livin' a lie
    And kickin' out the same old guise
    Wastin' time

    Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
    Ain't it the life? Got no crime
    Just sail on by
    Sail on by
    Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
    Ain't it the life? Got no crime
    Just sail on by
    Sail on by
    Ain't it the life?
    Just sail on by

    Try livin' a lie
    And kickin' out the same old guise
    Wastin' time

    Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
    Ain't it the life? Got no crime
    Just sail on by
    Sail on by
    Ain't it the life? Ain't it the life?
    Ain't it the life? Got no crime
    Just sail on by
    Sail on by
    Ain't it the life?
    Ain't it the life? Writer/s: David Eric Grohl, Nate Mendel, Oliver Taylor Hawkins
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Ct Hays from Frederick, Md.I have a friend that can taste the blue M&M’s from the rest..... every time all the time! He says we’re the weird ones because we can’t.....
  • Layton from Paris, TxCool I' am the first to comment this. Foo Fighters play this on the Brain Damage bootleg live C-D. I think they were playing in Glasgow.
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