Emily Finchum

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What a Minute To Be Alive

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What a Minute To Be Alive

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So many tables have turned

Things aren't the way that they were

Everybody's watching

Everybody's talking

It's only gonna get worse

The actions and the words

Everybody thinks the Earth is spinning faster

But I just think it's getting slower

The world might end tomorrow

Or maybe it'll end in a week

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

Or maybe it'll end in plea

Before we all die young

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

Many people've turned

Their backs on one another

They reject what they observe

And then go and shoot the messenger

Look what we ended up with

It's not pretty

No

It's not pretty

The world might end tomorrow

Or maybe it'll end in a week

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

Or maybe it'll end in plea

Before we all die young

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

The world might end tomorrow

Or maybe it'll end in a week

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

Or maybe it'll end in plea

Before we all die young

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

Wow (they tell us to look to the light)

Wow, but if we look too long we'll go blind

Wow, don't tell me to look to the light

'Cause I don't wanna go blind

The world might end tomorrow

Or maybe it'll end in a week

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

Or maybe it'll end in plea

Before we all die young

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

The world might end tomorrow

(Wow)

Or maybe it'll end in a week

(They tell us to look to the light)

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

(Wow)

Or maybe it'll end in plea

(But if we look too long we'll go blind)

Before we all die young

(Wow)

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

(Don't tell me to look to the light)

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

('Cause I don't wanna go blind)

The world might end tomorrow

Or maybe it'll end in a week

Maybe it'll end in sorrow

Or maybe it'll end in plea

Before we all die young

We don't know when the time will come

So for now let's raise our hands to the sky

Singing: What a time, what a time to be alive

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