Live It Up Lyrics - Ziggy Marley

The sun don't set in gettysville 

the place that i call home, 

a thousand people walk these streets 

but we're still all alone, 

this city's isolation 

like the drug that paves the roads. 

take the subway uptown 

to my mother's place. 

she's got a thousand friends 

but all they know of her's, her face, 

all alone inside her head 

her thoughts begin to race. 

Live it up 

live it up they say 

live it up 

no time to waste your life away. 

Next door to me the ceiling leaks 

cracks stretch across the walls, 

like skeletons of dreams deceased 

too brittle to evolve, 

he lies beneath his plastic sheets 

bitter and blind to all, 

shadows beneath his sunken eyes 

now taint all that he sees, 

like burned and blackened photographs 

life's easier a dream, 

he settles for a cheap escape 

forgets all he believed. 

Live it up 

live it up they say 

live it up 

things haven't always been this way. 

I watched my whole world crumble 

as i dried my mother's tears, 

and learned to never stumble 

as i calmed my father's fears, 

they say i've seen a lot 

they say i'm wise beyond my years, 

though my castle may have crumbled 

i won't face the world alone, 

the youth has seen the rubble 

and we're ready for the load, 

as this city burns 

my generation's shouting in the roads. 

Live it up 

live it up they say 

live it up 

things havn't always been this way 

Live it up 

we better turn this boat around 

if we keep on following the gold 

someday we are gonna run aground 

Live it up 

live it up we say 

live it up 

cause now its in our hands to make change 

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