Joe Gastwirt - She lyrics

So we trade our lives in for that fragile piece of mind That tells us everything is gonna be ok We work our lives away and keep our savings saved And wait inside for a rainy day But all that time the sun is shining All those days are lost we convince ourselves We need a purpose, and when it's not too clear Why all of us are here we follow the path that's made for us And we'll sit around And wonder what has happened to our lives When we realize that our purpose has no purpose That the lives we could have had we all left for dead When we let our lives be lived for us I once knew a girl who wanted all the world But she settled for the simple life instead After years of nine-to-five That yearning feeling died she joined the ranks of the living dead And all that time the sun was shining all her days were lost She'd convinced herself she'd need a purpose And when it wasn't clear The reason she was here she followed just like a lot of us She sat around and wondered what had happened to her life Everything seemed to be in such a rush The dreams she could have had were not the ones she had And she realized it wasn't enough