Barenaked Ladies - Live Well lyrics

Look back at my childhood
What was he thinking?
Scrapbook highlights of smoking
Driving and drinking
Packed with pets and games in
The back of a wagon
Some white trash nonsense
Not to sound like I'm bragging

'Cause I'm alive doesn't mean I lived well
Just means I got back up
Every time that I fell i've got the scrapes
The cuts and bruises
I know the mistakes that it takes
You're a fool if you choose this

With some distance memories get a bit clearer
Watching licenses lost in a rearview mirror
Guess we held ourselves to
A different standard
To lose your keys those days
You had to be hammered

'Cause I'm alive doesn't mean I lived well
Means I got back up every time that I fell
I got the scrapes the cuts and bruises
I know the mistakes that it takes
You're a fool if you choose this

And I recognize I've done fine
Yeah, I realize I've got mine
There must be better ways to make men
Than the nonsense we did back then

'Cause I'm alive doesn't mean I lived well
Just means I got back up
Every time that I fell i got the scrapes
The cuts and the bruises
I know the mistakes that it takes
You're a fool if you choose this