Don’t get depressed when you read in the press
Trendy intellectuals always take action,
Right-wing fascists beat up the blacks,
You gotta live life and be yourself
You gotta live life, that’s all you do
With the fascists and the left wing militants
Carry on it’s all you can do
They live in the slums just like the poor people do
Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother

You can’t live life for anyone else
They got every solution for every revolution.
Extra verse from long version:
Have you heard about trouble throughout the land
Weekend revolutionaries protest and sing
then they salute the Union Jack.

You gotta live life, that’s all you can do
it’s not the end, so just carry on.
Live life see it through
Stay cool, just carry on
Oh, life’s a mother, oh, life’s a mother
About world revolution and social unrest

are killing everybody else And the I.R.A.

You gotta live life for yourself, can’t live for anyone else
And see crooked politicians and the unemployment queues

Nobody gonna live their life for you

Don’t panic, don’t lose control
but they’d rather sniff coke instead of glue.
Out of work executives are killing themselves

Nobody gonna live your life for you
You gotta live life for yourself, can’t live life for anyone else
because they’re dedicated followers of any old thing.
Try not to panic when you switch on the news
You gotta live life that’s all you do
So don’t you believe all you read in the headlines
You can’t pretent there’s nothing wrong,
for every cause that’s ever been in fashion.
It’s only life it’s really fine
Keep your head, keep ahold
You gotta live life, you gotta live life
Act normal there’s nothing wrong
Nobody gonna live their life for you
Live life, you gotta live life