[Verse 1]
Look at me, I`m fallin` off of a cliff now
I can still hear my mama yelling, "No! No! No!"
But the words mean nothin`, can`t catch up to me now
The view is so beautiful all the way down
When I was a little boy suckin` juice from a bottle
Believing my perceptions were oh so real
But I didn`t know nothin`, still, knowing nothin`
Was just enough for me to know the way I feel

[Chorus]
This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
And I choose

[Verse 2]
Look at me, I`m swollen like a banana fish now
I`m never gonna make it, make it out of my hole
But I keep on laughin`, doesn`t really matter
There`s dozens of reasons for explaining my soul
When I was a teenager, suckin` booze with the Vatos
Discussing who was gonna live to be twenty-one
They said they wouldn`t make it; they didn`t make it
We`re all naked when the day is said and done


[Chorus]
This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
And I choose

[Guitar Solo]

[Bridge]
Don`t know who made this all come true
Now, while you`re here, just gotta do
What you gotta do
One, two, three, four!

[Interlude]
Ooh-woah-ooh-woah-ooh-woah-ooh

[Verse 3]
Now, if I wasn`t such a weenie, do you think you`d still love me?
Pretending I`m an airplane on the living room floor
Like a lovely generator, you stand right by me
And if words were wisdom, I`d be talkin` even more
So I keep on fallin` as I`m lookin` back above me
Watching as my mama just becomes a little dot (Dot!)
Now I`m, I`m like DeNiro, I`m Amarillo
And I`ll never know when I hit the ground


[Chorus]
This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
Said choose
Said choose
And I choose