Look at me, I'm fallin' off of a cliff now
I can still hear my mama yelling, "No, no, no!"
But the words mean nothing, can't catch up to me now
And the view is so beautiful all the way down

When I was a little boy suckin' juice from a bottle
Believing my perceptions were oh-so real
But I didn't know nothing, still, knowing nothin'
Was just enough for me to know the way I feel

This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
And I choose

Look at me, I'm swollen like a bananafish now
I'm never gonna make it, make it out of my hole
But I keep on laughing, doesn't really matter
There's dozens of reasons for explaining my soul

When I was a teenager suckin' booze with the Vatos
Discussing who was gonna live to be 21
They said they wouldn't make it, they didn't make it
We're all naked when the day is said and done

This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
And I choose

Don't know who made this all come true
But now, while you're here, you just gotta do
What you gotta do
One, two, three, four

Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, ooh-wah-ooh

Now, if I wasn't such a weenie, do you think you'd still love me?
Pretending I'm an airplane on the living room floor
Like a lovely generator, you stand right by me
And if words were wisdom, I'd be talking even more

So I keep on falling as I'm looking back above me
Watching as my mama just becomes a little dot (dot)
Now I'm, I'm like De Niro, I'm Amarillo
And I'll never know when I hit the ground

This is life
What a fucked-up thing we do
What a nightmare come true
Or a playground, if we choose
Said I choose
Said I choose
And I choose