Rina Sawayama
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To Be Alive

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Page type: lyric reference Artist: Rina Sawayama Canonical path: /rina-sawayama/to-be-alive Related lyric paths: 6
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To Be Alive

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Flowers still look pretty when they're dying

Blue skies always there behind the rain, rain

Oceans swallow all of our feelings

I know it's just temporary pain, pain

'Cause I used to make my world so small (small)

Prisoner to my bedroom walls

I never thought that I'd get this right

But I finally know what it feels like

To be alive, to be alive

Opened my eyes, feels like the first time

That I finally know what it feels like

To be alive, to be alive

Opened my eyes, feels likе the first time

That I finally know what it feels like

To bе alive

Darkness used to wrap its arms around me

I used to bring it with me everywhere, where

I swear that sometimes I get to be my worst enemy

I swear this whole time, the answer's been right in front of me

All of the beauty and love I could not see

I see it now, I see it now

'Cause I used to make my world so small

Prisoner to my bedroom walls

I never thought that I'd get this right

But I finally know what it feels like

To be alive, to be alive

Opened my eyes, feels like the first time

That I finally know what it feels like

To be alive, to be alive

Opened my eyes, feels like the first time

That I finally know what it feels like

To be alive

Flowers still look pretty when they're dying

Oh, flowers still look pretty when they're dying

Flowers still look pretty when they're dying

Oh, flowers still look pretty when they're dying

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