Here's my chance to break contract To exist without the lie That we'll live to be something More than feeling deep inside But I'm worth only numbers For the bearing of your pride And I only live to be alive I only live to be alive ♪ You, you don't know a god damn thing about me But you still tear out my heart like You know that everything I have within me is Just waiting to start again Here we will conform to All the faults of the past where You reap what we sow and Our ideas aren't ours to have Someday you'll get what we deserve The profit you had never earned Will be the deficit You cannot comprehend And as you rake in your return We'll loathe the lesson never learned That bottom lines won't ever satisfy demand For what could have been You, you don't know a god damn thing about me You, you don't know a god damn thing about me (We only live to be alive) (We only live to be alive) (We only live to be alive) Someday you'll get what we deserve (We only live to be alive) The profit you had never earned (We only live)