When you're standing on the side of a hill   Feeling like your day may be done   Here it comes   The strawberry smog   Chasing away the sun    Don't let those precious moments fool you   Happiness is getting you down   A rainbow never smiles or blinks   It's just a candy-colored frown      You were going on at half-past seven   Now it's going on a quarter 'til nine   All the angels want to know   Are you lost or treading water?   And you're going on your fifteenth bender   But you've only got a matter of time   Yes we've all got seeds to sow   Not everyone's got lambs to slaughter      When the night wind starts to turn   Into the ocean breeze   And the dew drops sting and burn   Like angry honey bees   That is when you hear the song falling from the sky:   Happy yesterday to all   We were born to die      Sometimes you're filled with the notion   The afterlife's a moment away   You want to tell someone the way that you feel   But then you ain't got nothing to say   You fight for freedom from devotion    A battle that will always begin   With somebody giving you a piece of advice:   By the way you're livin' in sin      Now there's never gonna be an intermission   But there'll always be a closing night   Never entertain those visions   Lest you may have packed your baggage   First impressions are cheap auditions   Situations are long goodbyes   Truth so often living dormant   Good luck walks and bullshit flies      When the headlights guide your way   You know the place is right   When the treetops sing and sway   Don't go to sleep tonight   That is when you'll see the sign luminous and high:   Tomorrow's not what it used to be   We were born to die   Happy yesterday to all   We were born to die