You say life is a dream

Where we can't say what we mean

Maybe just some roadside scene

That we're driving past

There's no telling

Where we'll be in a day or in a week

And there's no promises of peace

Or of happiness

Well is this why you cling to every little thing

And pulverize and derange all your senses

Maybe life is a song

But you're scared to song along

Until the very ending

Oh it's time to let go of everything

We used to know

Ideas that strengthen who we've been

It's time to cut ties

That won't ever free our minds

From the chains and shackles that they're in

Oh tell me what good is saying

That you're free

In a dark and storming sea

You're chained to your history

You're surely sinking fast

You say that you know

That the good Lord's in control

He's gonna bless and keep your tired

And oh so restless soul

But at the end of the day

When every price has been paid

You're gonna rise and sit

Beside him on some old seat of gold

And won't you tell me

Why you live like you're afraid to die

You'll die like you're afraid to go

Oh it's time to let go

Of everything we used to know

Ideas that strengthen who we've been

It's time to cut ties

That won't ever free our minds

From chains and shackles that they're in

From the chains and shackles that they're in

Well life is a dream

'Cause we're all walking in our sleep

You could see us stand in lines like

We're dead upon our feet

And we build our house of cards

And then we wait for it to fall

Always forget how strange it is just to be alive at all