I Choose

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