There's a smile on my face and I'm not saying it's a lie
But it's only the front page of a book where someone dies

And I can't really explain it but somewhere along the line
I started feeling all my feelings at exactly the same time
And I'm an optimist by trade and I choose to see the light

But if I'm honest I need breaks to rub the darkness from my eyes
You call it naivete I simply call it survivin
My mental frame it wasn't made to sustain all of this violence

Being alive being alive I think its killin me
'Cause I feel everything
Each little part
Being alive being alive I think its killin me
'Cause I feel everything
With this big stupid heart
With this big stupid heart

I'm drawn to innocent spaces like a moth to something bright
And I live for the conversations where the tears fill up my eyes
But I crash hard into the pavement when I'm abruptly reminded
That part of the human nature has an evil deep inside it

And I'm an optimist by trade and I choose to see the light
But if I'm honest I need breaks to rub the darkness from my eyes
You call it naivete I simply call it survivin
My mental frame it wasn't made to sustain all of this violence

Being alive being alive I think it's killin me
'Cause I feel everything
Each little part
Being alive being alive I think it's killin me
'Cause I feel everything
With this big stupid heart
With this big stupid heart