Lyrics

Have the fluorescent lights burned out your eyes, son?
When's the last time you saw the sun slip under the horizon?
Have the columns and the cells become the hallways of your hell?
Are you waiting to be saved by an imaginary bell?

CHORUS:
So count the cost, seize the day
Pay the man, and walk away
Look back once, blow a kiss
You must do no less than this
Follow your bliss

Have the long and plodding hours turned to years?
Do you disregard your dreams and do you stem the tide of tears?
The child was a dreamer and the dreamer went to work
The worker pays the doctor to see where his anger lurks

BRIDGE
Will you own your own life, will you heed the call?
'Cause if you play it safe then you don't play at all
The value of your life - equals what you dare to pay
What you get from life is what you give away