It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

Twenty-four, had a dream
Livin' it up and it's fit for a king
I see the cost but I can't retreat
You only got one life so this is where I'll preach

Stand for your vision even when you give in
Never let 'em bleed you for more than a minute
This is why you came here just to see name here
Standing in the lights oh baby now don't fear

Life is a vision for the mission we're given
You can sink or you swim or you can rise through the venom
I choose to believe and that don't mean that I'm with it
If you feel what I'm saying can you sing for a minute

It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

When you're in it, down for a minute
Prayin', 'Oh God why can't it be finished'
Facin' three strikes and it feels like the limit
How you gonna turn around to home run hit it

I was just a young man built with a vision
Now I'm just an old man fightin' with a cynic
Every time I turn around my mind says quit it
But I'm still in the game and I came here to win it

It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

Life is a vision for the mission we're given
You can sink or you swim or you can rise through the venom
I choose to believe and that don't mean that I'm with it
If you feel what I'm saying can you sing for a minute

It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

They wanna tell ya boy don't don't change
They wanna tell ya boy stay the same
They wanna tell ya boy walk this way
But they don't have an idea what it's gonna take

It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

Life is a vision for the mission we're given
You can sink or you swim or you can rise through the venom
I choose to believe and that don't mean that I'm with it
If you feel what I'm saying can you sing for a minute

It's not always rainbows and happy thoughts
Not always unicorns if you forgot
We get down sometimes and it's a lot
To carry this world when the rhythm is lost

They wanna tell ya boy don't don't change
They wanna tell ya boy stay the same
They wanna tell ya boy walk this way
But they don't have an idea what it's gonna take