Life's Too Short

You wanna know something?

Life's too short

It's too damn short

You want cake?
Eat cake

You want coffee?
Drink coffee

You want to dance in a fountain?
Honey, who's going to stop you?

I'm not going to stop you

Normally, I'd be too busy stopping myself

I'd sit around
Listing all the shit I shouldn't be doing

Going over it in my head
And saying

Aren't I good?
Aren't I being good?

Waiting for somebody
To deliver me a medal

Yeah, well no more of that shit

From now on, if I want ice cream
I'm eating ice cream

And if I want to drive to Boston at 3am
So I can get pancakes at the place I went to that time
I'm going to go

Because they're open all night

There's a world that goes on all the time
While I sit on a couch
And wonder about it

I'd rather be scared to death
Than bored to death

And all because two weeks ago
I opened up a paper
And saw some boy's face on it

Some boy who went camping with friends
And got lost
And died in the woods

Guess I should have read that and thought
Damn, I'm never going camping

But instead, I thought--

I bet that kid lived longer than I have
And I'm twice his age

It's too short, you know

It's just too damn short

So if I wanna eat pumpkin pie in June
And watch Frosty in July
And go swimming in the ocean
In the middle of December

I'm gonna friggin' do it

When I die, I'm gonna die smiling

Smiling at how much I did with this gorgeous little life
And marveling at how fast
The damn thing went by