3 Doors Down - The Better Life

3 Doors Down - The Better Life lyrics

Kryptonite
Duck And Run
Not Enough
Be Like That
Life Of My Own
Better Life
Down Poison
By My Side
Smack
So I Need You

Kryptonite

I took a walk around the world to
Ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark
Side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do, yeah

I watched the world float to the
Dark side of the moon
After all I knew it had to be something
To do with you
I really don't mind what happens now and then
As long as you'll be my friend at the end

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well, will you be
There holding my hand
I'll keep you by my side with
My superhuman might
Kryptonite

You called me strong, you called me weak
But your secrets I will keep
You took for granted all the times I
Never let you down
You stumbled in and bumped your head, if
Not for me then you would be dead
I picked you up and put you back
On solid ground

If I go crazy then will you still
Call me Superman
If I'm alive and well will you be
There holding my hand
I'll keep you by my side with my
Superhuman might
Kryptonite

Duck And Run

To this world I am unimportant
Just because I have nothing to give
So you call this your free country
Tell me why it costs so much to live
Tell me why

This world can turn me down
But I won't turn away, oh no
I won't turn around

All my work and endless measures
Never seen to get me very far
Walk a mile just to move an inch now
Even though I'm trying so damn hard
I'm trying so hard

This world can turn me down
But I won't turn away
And I won't duck and run
Cause I'm not built that way
When everything is gone there is nothing left to fear
The world cannot bring me down
No cause I am already here, oh no

I am already here
Down on my knees
I am already here
Oh, no, I am already here
I must have told you a thousand times I am not running away

I won't duck and run
I won't duck and run
I won't duck and run
No I pass away

This world can turn me down
But I won't turn away
And I won't duck and run
Cause I'm not built that way
When everything it gone
There is nothing left to fear
This world cannot bring me down
No cause I am already here

This world can turn me down
But I won't turn away
And I won't duck and run
Cause I'm not built that way
When everything is gone
There is nothing left to fear
This world cannot bring me down
No cause I am already here

Not Enough

Seven days underpaid gotta give it up
Got no time for this life that I'm livin' up
Shackled down, kicked around, now slave to the grind
Need some time for myself

I'll give you anything that you want me to
But I don't have the time
So I'll get up with you
If you don't understand
Man, you've gotta believe
There's too much of you but there is not enough of me

There's not enough of me

Same old song world moves on while I'm still in bed
Meet tomorrow today just to get ahead
Jump the gun on the run
I'm the only one
Who think that I'm fallin' behind

I'll give you anything that you want me to
But I dont have the time so I'll get up with you
If you don't understand
Man, you've got to believe
There's too much of you
but there's not enough of me
There's not enough of me
I'll give you anything that you want me to
But I don't have the time so I'll get up with you
If you don't understand
Man you've gotta believe
There's too much of you
There's too much of me

I'll give you anything that you want me to
But I don't have the time so I'll get up with you
If you don't understand, man, you've got to believe
There's too much of you
But there's not enough of me

Be Like That

He spends his nights in California       He spent his whole life being too young
Watching the stars on the big screen    To live a Life that's in his dreams
Then he lies awake and he wonders         At night he lies awake and he wonders
Why can't that be me
Cause in his life he's filled with all these good intentions
He's left a lot of things he'd rather not mention right now
But just before he says goodnight
He looks up with a little smile at me and he says

If I could be like that
I'd give anything
Just to live one day
In those shoes
If I could be like that, what would I do
What would I do

Now and dreams re-run

She spends her days up in the north park
watching the people as they pass
And all she wants is just a little piece of this dream, is that too much to ask
With a safe home, and a warm bed, on a quiet little street
All she wants is just that something to hold on to, that's all she needs

Yeah!

If I could be like that, I would give anything
Just to live one day, in those shoes
If I could be like that, what would I do
What would I do

I'm falling into this, in dreams we run away

If I could be like that, I would give anything
Just to live one day, in those shoes
If I could be like that, what would I do
What would I do

Falling in
I feel I am falling in to this again

Life Of My Own

Never risky, never scared
One closer to the edge
Nothing valued think no fear
Always wondering why you're here
All your purposes are gone,
Nothing's right and nothing's wrong
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
Feel no sorrow, feel no pain

Kiss me while I'm still alive
Kill me while I kiss the sky
Let me die on my own terms
Let me live and let me learn
Now I've followed my own way
I'll live on to another damn day
Freedom carries sacrifice
Remember when this was my life

Looking forward not behind
Everybody's gotta cross that line
Free me now to give me a place
Keep me caged and free the beast
Fallin' faster as time goes by
Fear has not seen through these eyes
What there was will never be
Now I'm blind and cannot see

Better Life

I’m about to be on the floor again
Surely you’re gonna find me here
I’m about to sleep until the end of time
Drug I take gonna wake my fear right now

I’m passing away onto the better life
I’m passing away onto the better

I’m about to see just how far I can fly
Surely your gonna break my fall
I’m about to run as fast as I can
Head long into that wall this time

I’m passing away onto the better life
I’m passing away onto the better

Onto the better life
Onto the better

I’m about to be on the floor again
Surely you’re gonna find me here
I’m about to sleep until the end of time
Drug I take gonna wake my fear right now

I’m passing away onto the better life
I’m passing away onto the better

Down Poison

I've dreamed about this
sixteen days away.
Now you're here
And my head lays
Beside your body,
Pillowed under mine.
You were poison,
spinning 'round my mind.
Welcome to my world
She said
Do you feel alive
She said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
She said.
Separated world
she stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Body withered, body died.
Time to take away this life.
Bad enought to die from one, not to mention four or five.
Welcome to my world
she said
do you feel alive
she said
It's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head.
Welcome to my world
she said
Separated world
she stayed separated.
down poison.
down poison
down poison
down poison
down.
You weren't there for me, I was there for you.
You weren't there for me, I was there for you.
You weren't there for me, I was there for you.
You weren't there for me, never there for me.
You wouldn't die for me, I've already died for you
You wouldn't die for me, I've already died for you
You wouldn't die for me, I've already died for you
You wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, you wouldn't die, no!
Welcome to my world,
she said
do you feel alive
she said
it's all a bad dream spinning in your lonely head
Welcome to my world
she said
seperated world
she stayed separated.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down poison.
Down

By My Side

They blazed a trail I dared to run
They built this world and I have come
I need another, like a brother
For a cryin' shoulder

This could be the last time
You will stand by my side
I can feel my soul it's bleeding
Will you fly with me this evening

Sober mind time now is gone
They carved my body not of stone
A pretty maze emptiness
I've said the hell with all the rest

This could be the last time
You will stand by my side
I can feel my soul it's bleeding
Will you fly with me tonight

This could be the last time
You will stand by my side
I can feel my soul it's bleeding
Will you fly with me this evening

Smack

Rubber headed motor junky
Run me down and try to stomp me
Throw my life away and I'll be worthless just like you
Somewhere now a baby's crying
Down the road his mother's dying
Shot a line and blew her mind and now she's turnin' blue

Don't you throw your life away
Just wait until another day
Don't you throw your life away
Cause baby I can feel it
Don't you ever compromise it
Don't you even realize it
Don't you throw your life away cause baby I can feel it now

Trip and fall
I'm sure you all can tell me
What is on the wall
Behind the liquor store where you get smacked up all the time
Perfect little life you wasted, overdosed and that death you tasted
Scared you back into yourself, and now you walk the line

Life away
Life away
Life away

So I Need You

If you could step into my head
Tell me would you still know me
If you woke up in my bed
Tell me then would you hold me
Or would you simply let it lie
Leaving me to wonder why
I can't get you out of this head
I call mine
And I will say

Oh no I can't let you go my little girl
Because you're holding up my world
So I need you.
Your imitation of my walk
And the perfect way you talk
Are just a couple of the million things that I love about you

So I need you
So I need you
So I need you
So I need you

And if I jumped of the Brooklyn Bridge
Tell me would you still follow me
And if I made you mad today
Tell me would you love me tomorrow
Please. or would you say that you don't care
And then leave me standing here
Like the fool who is drowning in despair and screamin'

So I need you
So I need you
So I need you
So I need you

I'm on my own
I'm on my own
I'm on my own

Oh no I can't let you go my little girl
Because your holding up my world,
so I need you.
Your imitation of my walk and the perfect way you talk
It's just a couple of the million things that I love about you.

So I need you
So I need you
So I need you
So I need you

3 Doors Down - The Better Life lyrics

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