Live the Life You Deserve

You can love with consuming emotion

Stand tall through the deepest of pain

Grow wiser but still have the notion

That you’d love to love that way again.

 

What lies between Truth and the turning

Is not what we mean at the start

And sighs that hide longing and yearning

Won’t silence the song in your heart

 

So, dance like your life has a purpose

Love as if love never hurts  

Play like they play at the circus

And live the life you deserve

 

You won’t always be on the level

As you dance between Heaven and Hell

If some days you dine with the Devil

You’ll entertain angels as well.

 

With no guarantee of forever

You won’t always give what it takes

As you stagger from stupid to clever

Well meaning – you’ll play for high stakes

 

So, dance like your life has a purpose

Love as if love never hurts  

Play like they play at the circus

And live the life you deserve

In a world full of pushing and shoving

People hurt when pretending to care

Be warmed by the bright side of loving

Or you’ll freeze in the depths of despair.

 

And don’t sit complaining and fretting

Stand tall and give Life a chance

On the bridge between fear and forgetting

You can make your own music and dance

 

And dance because life has a purpose

Love even though love can hurt

Play like they play at the circus

Create the life you deserve