Life Is What You Make It lyrics

Here today and gone tomorrow

Life is short, most people say

There's no way we can borrow

Any time from yesterday

There are joys and there are sorrows

And there's one thing to understand:

We got today and we got tomorrow

(We got today and we got tomorrow)

And we can make the most of them while we can

Life is what you make of it

What you take from it, what you do with it

You're gonna find something great in it

Before you're through with it, you know

So don't sit around just to wait for it

And think it'll happen somehow, no

You got the life, go out and use it

You're the only one, you've gotta choose it

You got the right, so don't you refuse it now

You got the chance, you're gonna make it

It's the only one, you've gotta take it

Life can be what you wanna make it now

Where's the rhyme and what's the reason

Which way are we meant to go

Why the stars, why the season

No one really seems to know

Life, it seems, has many reasons

And we may never understand

But we got today and we got tomorrow

(We got today and we got tomorrow)

And we can make the most of them while we can

Life is what you make of it

What you take from it, what you do with it

You're gonna find something great in it

Before you're through with it, you know

So don't sit around just to wait for it

And think it'll happen somehow, no

You got the life, go out and use it

You're the only one, you've gotta choose it

You got the right, so don't you refuse it now

Telling you, people:

You got the chance, you're gonna make it

It's the only one, you've gotta take it

Life can be what you wanna make it now

You got the life, go on and live it

Give it everything you got to give it

Life can be the way you wanna live it now

Telling you, people:

You got the chance, you're gonna make it

It's the only one, you've gotta take it

Life can be what you wanna make it now

• Artist:Kevin Johnson
• Album:Rock & Roll, I Gave You the Best Years of My Life (1974)