Lyrics

You only have one life to live

Only have your heart to give

Everything else is borrowed

You’ll die alone, like me, like them

Laid to rest, in a cardboard coffin

Selfish setup, personal asset items stored

Life lost, people slain, disadvantage ignored

Maserati, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Jag

Prestige amounting to nothing when natural disaster had 

Outdated governing and business ways

Failing economies, criminal culture displays

Everything else is borrowed

Commodities, commercial markets, power exchange

Twin Towers fallen — life for death rearranged

Drugs, junkies, leather, tatts and lace

Bikies, goth, suits, piercings — style or bad taste

Same sex couples, pregnant teens

Families, gangs and religious groups surviving

Harmonic global connection

Love’s conscious co-creation — mixed race and culture thriving

Everything else is borrowed

Not the love

Not the harm

Everything else is borrowed

On death row, firing squad to meet

Headlines atop pages, face plastered on TV

Whether you left the planet starving

Or making a corporate deal

How you leave others feeling

Is all that is real 

Mindful decisions ease heartache and pain

Quality time shared with lover, child, and mate

Fun spreading riches

Fix damage done

Validation of hurt, caused by wrong

Ignite another’s passion

Their desire to chase

Lives filled with purpose

Contentment stained

Talk at your funeral

Precious moments recalled

What you did for another

What won’t be anymore

Slid into furnace, pushed into flame

Dropped into hole, earth swells to rain

Eyes turned downward, flooded with tears

Throats choked, remembering years

Alive gripping money and items for life

To the grave without children, husband or wife

Everything Else Is Borrowed

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