When you're standing on the side of a hill
Feeling like your day may be done
Here it comes, strawberry smog, chasing away the sun
Don't let those precious moments fool you
Happiness is getting you down
A rainbow never smiles or blinks, it's just a candy colored frown
You were going on at half-past seven
Now it's going on a quarter to nine
All the angels want to know, are you lost or treading water?
And you're going on your fifteenth bender
But you've only got a matter of time
Yes, we've all got seeds to sow
Not everyone's got lambs to slaughter
When the night wind starts to turn into the ocean breeze
And the dew drops sting and burn like angry honey bees
That is when you hear the song falling from the sky, whoa-oh-oh
Happy yesterday to all, we were born to die
Sometimes you're filled with the notion
The afterlife's a moment away
You want to tell someone the way that you feel
But then you ain't got nothing to say
You fight for freedom from devotion
A battle that will always begin
With somebody giving you a piece of advice
By the way, you're living in sin
Now there's never gonna be an intermission
But there'll always be a closing night
Never entertain those visions lest you may have packed your baggage
First impressions are cheap auditions
Situations are long goodbyes
Truth so often to living dormant
Good luck walks and bullshit flies
When the headlights guide your way
You know the place is right
When the treetops sing and sway, don't go to sleep tonight
That is when you see the sign, luminous and high, whoa-oh-oh
Tomorrow's not what it used to be, we were born to die
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Whoa-oh-oh, happy yesterday to all, we were born to die