GRACE JONES-THIS IS LIFE Video and Lyrics

 This Is Life By Grace Jones Lyrics
  This is my voice

My weapon of choice

This is life
This is life

This is plate
This is a cup
This is a story I didn't make up
This is a girl lost in the woods

 

Some kind of wagon from some other 'hood

This is a voice
These are the hands
This is technology
Mixed with the band

Are you going into the light

Are you free of fear today

 

When you lie down to sleep do you kind of float away

This is life
This is life

 

Most of my crimes are of optimism
40 thousand volts of recognition
They tried to strip me of dignity

But I still have tenacity

These are the words I didn't invent
Only an attempt to say what I meant

This is the paper
This is the pen
This is my weapon

 

A means to an end

Are you going into the desert
 
 You're out of control of your fate
There are no warriors without a war
So get ahead before it's too late

This is life (ya'll)
 

Lay down your spear
Let go your fear

 

Far becomes near

Oh Lord
This is life (hey!)

 

This is the tree
 
The Buddha slept under
These are the clouds
 

 This is our thunder

This is what makes me look up and wonder

Into the eye of the wind
Through the rain
 
On to the plain

This is what I'm focused on
This is my head on straight
This is the harness
This is the bait
This is me
 
I'm flying again

This is a lawyer
Professional liar
There, Taking
Igniting the fire
 

This is the key
This is the door
Imagine the view from the basement floor

(Hey!)
 
Now you're going into the desert
You're out of control of your fate
 
Are you a slave in a chain of command

 

Serving up another man's head

This is life

Lay down your spear
Let go your fear
 
Far becomes near
Look out

This is life
 

Are you going into the light
 

Are you freeing your fear today
 
When you lie down to sleep
 
Do you kind of float away

 

This is depression
It comes when you're blocking
This is expression
It comes when your rocking

This is life
 

This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
 
 This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)
This is (ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!)

When you lie down to sleep
Do you kind of float away
 
 (This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story, this is a story I didn't make up)

When you lie down to sleep
 
 Do you kind of float away

 

(This is a plate, this is a cup, this is a story I didn't make up)

This is the world still healing
This is man that's feeling
This is the world still turning
 
This is the rage still burning

 

This is the man not learning
This is life