No dress rehearsal , this life. A song about living and dying FULLY ALIVE. Thank you to my friend Alex who helped drive this lesson home as he made his graceful exit from this world. You've got a special part in this dance of life--don't hold back!

 DANCE YOUR LIFE

Alex told me just before he died
he said, "You'll never get out of this world alive.
You gotta get up, get up
and dance your life.
Seize the day before the time flies by
so you're fully alive when you die.
You gotta get up, get up
and dance your life."

Time like an ever-rolling stream
bears all of us away.
We die forgotten as a dream
dies at the break of day.

Alex said, "Let you life ring true;
you can't be someone else,
you can only be you.
You gotta get up, get up
and dance your life.
You only have one part to play
so take a risk and give your heart away.
Get up, get up and dance your life".

Who know what happens when we die?
No one really knows for sure.
The only thing I know for certain
is that somehow love endures.

You got get up, get up, get up
and dance your ife.


Phillip Bennett, lyrics and music, copyright 2013