Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality

Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy
'Cause I'm easy come, easy go
A little high, little low
Anyway the wind blows, it doesn't really matter to me, to me

Mama, I just killed a man
Put a gun against his head
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead
Mama, life has just begun
Now I've gone and thrown it all away

Mama, ooh
I didn't mean to make you cry
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine
Body's aching all the time
Goodbye everybody, I've got to go
I gotta leave you all behind and face the truth

Mama, ooh 
No, I don't wanna die
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all
Carry on, carry on, as if nothing really matters

Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Nothing really matters, nothing really matters to me