When you turned seventeen You said you'd follow your dream And be an artist You've found a comfortable niche And though you're quite far from rich Your life has started Things are starting to click Then you get very sick The doc says cancer Your passion barely pays bills And you can't pay for the pills Who has the answer? Every hour of every day Is so filled with these Possibilities In this life any choice you make Can go up in flames Can I win this game? Am I doing it right Doing it right? I gotta put up a fight Doing it right Can I buckle down and save my world tonight? Am I doing it right? This girl is out of your league But when you got on one knee She said, "Let's do it" You've got a mess of a life But now your best friend's your wife You might get through it Months all fade into years Then one day she's in tears She says she's done pretending She's gone and found someone new He's ten times better than you There goes your happy ending Every hour of every day We all flirt with these These uncertainties In this life any choice you make Can go up in smoke Is this some kind of joke? Am I doing it right Doing it right? I gotta put up a fight Doing it right Can I buckle down and save my world tonight? Half of the time You feel you're out of your mind You've got no clue where to look There's no instructional book You just stumble along And maybe mumble a song That you make up as you go Because you just never know You never know if they hate or if they like you You never know if a move is the right move You never know about the world, what it might do 'Cause sometimes, everything is going nice, and then Like the best-laid plans of mice and men It all blows up once and twice again And every little decision that sounded great at the time Has got you trapped in a cage of your own design I feel like I'm a mix of Icarus and Sisyphus I'm standing on the edge of this precipice and the question is Am I doing it right? Am I doing it right? Doing it right Am I doing it right? Am I doing it right? When the story ends will I say it was nice? Am I doing it right?