Everybody Dies But Not Everybody Lives lyrics

It is not death most people are afraid of.

It is getting to the end of life, only to realize that you never truly lived.

NEVER TRULY LIVED

There was a study done, a hospital study on 100 elderly people. Facing death, close to their last breath they were asked to reflect about their life's biggest regret.

BIGGEST REGRET

Nearly all of them said they regretted not the things they did but the things they didn't do.

DIDN'T DO

The risks they never took. The dreams they didn’t pursue.

DIDN’T PURSUE

I ask you, will your last words be "If only I had..."?

Hey, you! Wake up!

HEY YOU

Why do you exist? Life is not meant to simply work, wait for the weekend and pay rent. No, no I don’t know much. But I know this: every person on this earth has a gift.

GIFT

And I apologize to the black community. But I can no longer pretend...

Martin Luther King?

MARTIN LUTHER KING

That man never had a dream. That dream had him.

PEOPLE DON'T CHOOSE DREAMS

DREAMS CHOOSE THEM

See people don't choose dreams, dreams choose them.

So the question I'm getting to is, do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you?

COURAGE

That befits you and grips you? Or will you let it get away and... slip through?

You know, I learned a fact about airplanes the other day. Now this was, this was so surprising, see...

I was talking to a pilot and he told me that many of his passengers think planes are dangerous to fly in. But he said,"Actually, it is a lot more dangerous for a plane to stay on the ground." I said, "What? Like how does that sound?"

Well, he said, he said, "Because on the ground the plane starts to rust,

RUST

MALFUNCTION

WEAR

malfunction and wear, much faster than it ever would if it was in the air." As I walked away I thought, "Yeah, makes total sense." Because planes were built to live in the skies. And every person was built to live out the dream they have inside. So it is, perhaps, the saddest loss to live a life on the ground without ever taking off.

TAKING OFF

See, most of us are afraid of the thief that comes in the night to steal all of our things. But there is a thief in your mind who is after your dreams. His name is doubt.

DOUBT

If you see him, call the cops and keep him away from the kids because he is wanted for murder. For he has killed more dreams than failure ever did. He wears many disguises and like a virus will leave you blinded, divided and turn you into a... "kinda".

BLINDED

DIVIDED

“KINDA”

See kinda is lethal. You know what kinda is? There is a lot of kinda people, you kinda want a career change, you kinda want to get straight A’s, you kinda want to get in shape. Simple math, no numbers to crunch. If you kinda want something, then you will kinda get the results you want.

What is your dream? What ignites that spark? You can't kinda want that, you got to want it with every part of your whole heart. Will you struggle? Yeah, yeah… you will struggle, no way around it. You will fall many times, but who's counting? Just remember, there's no such thing as a smooth mountain.

SMOOTH MOUNTAIN

If you want to make it to the top then there are sharp ridges that have to be stepped over. There will be times you get stressed and things you get depressed over. But let me tell you something. Steven Spielberg was rejected from film school three times. Three times. But he kept going.

KEPT GOING

The television execs fired Oprah. Said she was unfit for TV. But she kept going.

Critics told Beyoncé that she couldn’t sing. She went through depression. But she kept going.

KEPT GOING

STRUGGLE & CRITICISM

Struggle and criticisms are prerequisites for greatness. That is the law of this universe and no one escapes it. Because pain is life but you can choose what type: Either the pain on the road to success. Or the pain of being haunted... with regret.

REGRET

You want my advice? Don't think twice.

DON'T THINK TWICE

We have been given a gift that we call life.

LIFE

So don't blow it. You are not defined by your past. Instead you are born anew in each moment. So own it. Now.

SO OWN IT

NOW

Sometimes you’ve got to leap and grow your wings on the way down. You better get the shot off before the clock runs out. Cuz ain't no over time in life. No do-over. And I know I sound like I'm preaching or speaking with force. But if you don't use your gift then you sell, not only yourself, but the whole world... short.

SHORT

So what invention do you have buried in your mind? What idea?

IDEA

CURE

SKILL

What cure? What skill did you have inside to bring out to this universe?

UNI = ONE VERSE = SONG

Uni meaning one, verse meaning song, you have a part to play in this song.

ONE SONG

So grab that microphone and be brave. Sing your heart out on life's stage. You cannot go back and make a brand new beginning. But you can start now and make a brand new ending.

A BRAND NEW ENDING.

• Artist:Prince Ea