Eight hours of work, eight hours must I sleep, I can only weep, I realize my life is passing by, Oh O O O Om . . . My life gets in the way of living.
Creative people try and lonely people sigh, I can only weep, I realize my life is passing by, Oh O O O Om . . . My life gets in the way of living.
Travels I would make, cause my heart to break, For misery and ecstasy are one. Tibetan book of the dead, red rivers I have bled And temple walls, they speak of—*
My life gets in the way of living.
Years spent in school, we learn but never do And if you have a woman, or a man, Your life is spent, by a factor of ten, Oh O O O Om . . . My life gets in the way of living.