It's a Good Life

You could try to live, but you're only shadow trying to find yourself Going nowhere when you don't know who to follow, moving to the river's edge Right at the start, and I know where to find her But the light in her heart is softly dying out again, again Lying to the world, you decide you've got to hide up, lying even to yourself I guess you're a girl with a world of hidden shallows Story never writes itself She lay in the dark, but I don't know who found her And in all different ways, the story is playing out again, again It's a good life, a good life Hold on It's a good life, a good life Until it's gone It's a good life, a good life Hold on It's a good life, a good life Until it's gone