How many times have you been pushed around?
Is anybody there? Does anybody care?
And how many times have your friends let you down?
Is anybody there? Did anybody stare?
And how many times have your friends let you down?
Just open up your heart, just open up your mind
And how many times has your faith slipped away?
Well, is anybody safe? Does anybody pray?
And how many days have you just slept away?
Is everybody high? Is everyone afraid?
And how many times have you wished you were strong?
Have they ever seen your heart? Have they ever seen your pain?
Life is waiting for you
It's all messed up but we're alive
Life is waiting for you
It's all messed up but we'll survive
She gets high, she gets lost
She gets drowned by the cost
Twice a day, every week
And all her life
Our Lady Peace
Life
It is probably one of the simplest songs we ever wrote and one of the best because of that... "Life" was almost done from the beginning and that has happened very few times before. - Jeremy Taggart, Buffalo News, 20 Mar. 2001
I think we've always tried to get the optimistic view. You know the light at the end of the tunnel. So, I think that if you take a song like "Life," I mean it's very, healing. It's almost the whole idea of that song. We've come this far. Things may not be great but let's deal with what we have and try and live. Basically to enjoy life. That's all we have at the end of the day. If you think about the good and the bad…your job sucks or your job's great…or you have an alcohol problem or you got caught stealing. You have to realize that you're alive and that's something that should be looked upon as a good thing, not like we are trapped here.- Jeremy Taggart, Hard Rock Live, 3 Apr. 2001