1. The sun comes up   The sun goes down   But everything stays the same   It's the same old movie   Or the same old song   Only the players change   It's either 9 to 5   Or work all night   Everybody's got to pay their dues   One half are wrong    One half are right   Sometimes you win   Sometimes you lose      Saying me oh my   We all got to try   To stay alive   And we'll get by   If we all try   To stay alive      There's problems here   There's problems there   We got confusion everywhere   We're all working for a meal   Or to get a better deal   You only want what's fair   I'm stuck on stage   You're stuck at home   Everybody wants to trade places   So I'll be you and you be me   Nothing changes except the faces      Chorus      Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive   Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive      Repeat 1      Chorus      Stay alive, stay alive, stay alive   We got to stay alive, stay alive, stay alive   Me oh my, we all got to try   We got to try to stay alive   We got to get by, we all got to try   We all got to try, we got to stay alive   We got to survive, saying me oh my   We all got to try, to stay, stay alive   We all got to try, to get by and stay alive   Stay alive x9   We got to survive, we all got to try   To stay alive, alive, alive   We got to got try to survive   We all got to try to get by, to get by and get by   We got to try and stay alive