Well I wanna be a better man

But I got a short attention span

Have a good time while you can 

Before your time is through

Cause life is unrehearsable

And the past is irreversable

Let me ride in your convertable

Cause I'm love with you



You know that life,

It's a merry-go-round

It's a ride

It speeds up, it slows down

And it's free

But you only get to ride it once



Working for the corporation

And so is my imagination

Money is the sole salvation

It's monkey see, monkey do

I just want to stay up to see a while

I just wanna see my baby smile

In the end it's all worthwhile

When I come home to you



You know that life,

It's a merry-go-round

It's a ride

It speeds up, it slows down

And it's free

But you only get to ride it once



They want to see who's got the biggest gun

(They want to do it again)

All these cowboys want to have their fun

(They want to do it again)

They want to do it again



Well we think that we're so clever

Flying without feathers

But we still can't control the weather

Better send in the marines

And it gets a little harder everyday

But we just pretend that it'll go away

Someday when we're old and gray

And living in a submarine



You know that life,

It's a merry-go-round

It's a ride

It speeds up, it slows down

And it's free

But you only get to ride it once



Well I wanna be a better man

But I got a short attention span

Have a good time while you can 

Before your time is through