| Have you heard about trouble throughout the land | |
| With the fascists and the left wing militants | |
| Out of work executives are killing themselves | |
| And the I.R.A. are killing everybody else | |
| Don't panic, don't lose control | |
| Keep your head, keep ahold | |
| Act normal there's nothing wrong | |
| Stay cool, just carry on | |
| You gotta live life and be yourself | |
| You can't live life for anyone else | |
| You gotta live life that's all you do | |
| Nobody gonna live your life for you | |
| Don't get depressed when you read in the press | |
| About world revolution and social unrest | |
| Try not to panic when you switch on the news | |
| And see crooked politicians and the unemployment queues | |
| It's only life it's really fine | |
| So don't you believe all you read in the headlines | |
| Live life see it through | |
| Carry on it's all you can do | |
| You gotta live life for yourself, can't live for anyone else | |
| You gotta live life, that's all you do | |
| Nobody gonna live their life for you | |
| Extra verse from long version: | |
| Trendy intellectuals always take action, | |
| for every cause that's ever been in fashion. | |
| Weekend revolutionaries protest and sing | |
| because they're dedicated followers of any old thing. | |
| They got every solution for every revolution. | |
| They live in the slums just like the poor people do | |
| but they'd rather sniff coke instead of glue. | |
| Right-wing fascists beat up the blacks, | |
| then they salute the Union Jack. | |
| You can't pretent there's nothing wrong, | |
| it's not the end, so just carry on. | |
| Oh, life's a mother, oh, life's a mother | |
| Oh, life's a mother, oh, life's a mother | |
| You gotta live life for yourself, can't live life for anyone else | |
| You gotta live life, that's all you can do | |
| Nobody gonna live their life for you | |
| Live life, you gotta live life | |
| You gotta live life, you gotta live life |