This is the life I've been given So I will do my best To tie small pleasures with colorful ribbon And hold high my chest I'll find the rhythm In the broken and rattling pipes Give me a dead tree I'll revive it. I'll paint it white I'd be a great success If the measure were more the dog than its bite This is the life I've been given So I will do my best To greet the morning without resistance Shower and get dressed Days in my father's shirt They make me a better man He'll work from dawn to dusk Come home, wash the pots and pans Gardens on weekends Moves the earth with a gentle touch But a great command This is the life I've been given So I will do my best To uphold my family's conviction A truly good man never rests Call me up at Any hour on any night Give me your sorrow And I will do my best to give it flight My luck is borrowed So I'm trying to use it well To do what's right