Live out the String - Marc Cohn

Maybe life is curious to see what you would do

With the gift of being left alive

How love, how give

Spread the higher purpose

And cut through all the shuck and jive

It’s only natural, maybe superstitious

To try and find the meaning in beating the odds

Cause sometimes you gotta (get down on your knees)

Sometime (could you get down on your knees)

Sometimes baby (maybe get down on your knees)

And thank the whole wide universe of God’s for letting you

Live out the string

A little longer boy

Raise your voice and make a joyful noise

Ain’t no guarantee of anything

Live out the string

Now that a meteorite has fallen in the chair

You just got out of to answer the phone

Will you live every moment like it just might be the last

Or will you still just bitch and moan

Fate is kind, fate is cruel, fate is terminally cool

It’s a random interruption in the middle of your groove

But sometime (won't you get down on your knees)

Sometime (get down on your knees)

Sometimes baby (better get down on your knees)

And find yourself a deeper groove, yeah

Live out the string

A little longer boy

Raise your voice and make a joyful noise

Ain’t no guarantee of anything

So live out the string (the string)

Who knows if we got angels on our shoulders (move on)

Right now with the devil in the street

Who knows if it means we got more work to do

But hey baby, don’t the air taste sweet

Hey baby, don’t the air taste sweet

(hey baby, don’t the air taste sweet)

Get down on your knees

Get down on your knees

Live out the string

Live out the string

(yeah-ah, yeah-ah, yeah-ah)

Maybe life is curious to see what you would do

With the gift of being left alive