Song Description

We are so blessed in the USA. Best be grateful while we're on soil top...life is short.

Lyrics

Did I Live Rich or Poor?
[Key: Bbmaj]
Copyright © 2005 David Baumgarten

[Verse] From Mayfair's perch, I see Shanghai's light.
Its pastel glow beneath the day's-tired fight.
City scenes, concrete rows neatly lay...
A cowboy in Shanghai today.

[Verse] The crowd below moves with urgent feet,
At their pace, life's bittersweet. Our stage, this world where we move and feed,
What roles do we choose, what scripts do we read?

[Chorus] So much is spent in life's hurry chase.
All moments lost to time and place. Where focus lands, growth will surely follow.
In these shades of truth, when our life feels so hollow.
So hollow.

[Verse] Stars look upon us from ancient skies.
Their beam like a ghost that never dies. Do they care for our daily strife?
Or weep for our endless, tragic, fleeting life?

[Bridge] Alone too long, do I vanish, too?
My existence just a breeze that once blew.
Why be here? What truth to find?
Is it a creation of my own mind?

[Chorus] So much is spent in life's hurry chase,
All moments lost to time and place. Where focus lands, growth will surely follow.
In these shades of truth, when our life feels so hollow, oh, oh, oh.

[Verse] Gazing out this Shanghai Window;
A mirror of now reflecting my own past.
My window, the world's heart beats,
endless nights go creeping down endless streets.

[Outro] What will I leave when these days are done?
Did I burn brightly like our deadly sun?
When the curtain falls to the floor,
did I live rich or poor?

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