how this must happen to the best of us?

2023
Edmund Leung

Far away a battle's raging
In the dark a child's crying
We're trapped in a cell but there ain't no prison walls
Free to choose our clothes to wear
Free to speak our mind with care
Ain't it good to be alive?

All around me is bitter faces, worn out souls, tormented places
Safe within my room, I turn away from it all
Hide and seek is the game I play
Somehow I'm always losing.
Ain't it good to be alive?
Long ago today, I was taught to love,
share all our lives together for all humanity
But times go by, the child in us has grown
How this must happen to the best of us?

Turning in to the latest fashion
Drown ourselves in pools of passion
Looking for the one thing that can save us all
Let someone else do the walking
And someone else do the talking
Ain't it good to be alive?
Long ago today, I was taught to love,
share all our lives together for all humanity
But times go by, the child in us has grown
How this must happen to the best of us?

Far away a battle's raging
In the dark a child's crying
We're trapped in a cell but there ain't no prison walls
Free to choose our clothes to wear
Free to speak our mind with care
Ain't it good to be alive?

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The pain of growing up is the world is never never as the one promised when we're children. We thought about how prosperous we will when we grow, but life has drowned us all by now. We are leading life like those cheesy television drama story. But still, ain't it good to be alive? Dreaming is bitter, and we live on...