Lyrics for Ain’t It The Life as interpreted by me109cito

Ain’t It The Life Lyrics
Dear Hailey
Can you save me from the borrowed cloud I'm on
All you gotta do is try
Pray you're just getting by
Hey wait I thought you'd made it
How'd your bottled crown fall off
Tell me how'd you get so tired
Faded down to the wire
Try living a lie and kicking out the same old guise
Wasting timeSo very ordinary
Wait until my bomb goes off
See the actors run and hide
Fake it all in stride
One day we all can say we're gone
And haunt the ground we're from
Everything's so open wide
Here within the divide
Try living a lie and kicking out the same old guise
Wasting time
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain’t it the life
Just sail on by
Try living a lie and kicking out the same old guise
Wasting time
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life
Got no crime
Just sail on by
Sail on by
Ain’t it the life
Ain’t it the life

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xpankfrisst
09-24-2002

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not as rock as i usually like foo fighters to be, but this song is so lush, and nice to chillout to. i think it's about how he's happy with how his life is now, all because of "hailey". and she is...?

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frumstick
04-07-2003

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yea, who is hailey?

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sergio_0
04-29-2003

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does it matter ? i just think, it's a beautiful song :)

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frumstick
05-01-2003

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it is.

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chwymnky
06-21-2004

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I think this song is very much about irony. For one thing, the lyrics, to me, state that the life isn't "THE life" but the music is just so... wonderful. So, in my perspective, it is one of those ironic songs that sound happy, but really the lyrics tell a slightly different story. Thats just my opinion...

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chwymnky
06-21-2004

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I think this song is very much about irony. For one thing, the lyrics, to me, state that the life isn't "THE life" but the music is just so... wonderful. So, in my perspective, it is one of those ironic songs that sound happy, but really the lyrics tell a slightly different story. Thats just my opinion...

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punker_rocker
12-04-2004

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I was expecting some negative comments about this song, but thankfully there are none. I like this song a lot. That's all there is to it.

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_Polly_
02-01-2005

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This song is beautiful. It also has my name in it. Yay. well my name is spelt Hayley but its near enough.

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friend_person
04-02-2005

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THIS SONG JUST HAS TO BE ON GARDEN STATE... I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS ABOUT IT, IT IS JUST SO GOOD.

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mattcore
06-13-2005

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i think it's about being rich and famous, the way many people would think he has the best life ever but he too has problems

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Krystle
07-15-2005

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Lovely song. End of.

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eatlotacheese
12-07-2005

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I love this song its so melloand peaceful. The melody conveys a sense of deppression or bordem. The lyrics almost poke fun at the person "Hailey" I tend to think of this song as a respnse to the fakeness Dave was in when he wrote this. In hollywood he was just another star, who would party and waste his life. This is a response to that life and how he just kept sailing on by living the life with absolutely no reward for him.

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malcolmchaos7
02-17-2007

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This is a song Dave wrote after the second album, he left Los Angeles and moved back home to Virginia; The band was in a fairly interesting spot because, as Dave said in an interview with guitar world magazine "we had been released from our record label Capitol Records after our second album, which was our most successful album yet. we were just a band without a deal-friends who made music for the sake of having a good time again. It was a really great place to be. As sappy and cliched as this sounds, it really did remind me of why I did this in the first place."

and anybody who bought the dvd "skin and bones" heard grohl say he wrote this song about moving back to Virginia.

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tscee0917
12-04-2008

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Dave wrote this song on the porch of his home in Alexandria, Virginia that he purchased in 1998. He turned the basment of that home into a recording studio to record 1999's "There is Nothing Left to Lose". After living in Los Angeles for around a year and half, he was fed up with how fake and superficial LA was and was happy to be back home to where he grew up in Virginia. He liked the fact that it meant more family, friends and getting back to how life used to be, "ain't it the life...just sail on by" i think he is referring to how laid back his life was at that time (1999) and how that moment in time of coming home was "the life".

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musicismyeternalsun
01-04-2009

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id like to know who hailey is...?

but, it is a great song, i love this band


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worsetimesarehere
07-19-2009

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The Foo Fighters are the greatest band who ever walked the earth.
I know Dave Grohl is a musical genius and a beast--- for SURE.
but someone has to give the rest of them (Chris Shiflett, Nate Mendel, and Taylor Hawkins) some credit, cause despite the rumor, I don't think Dave is a frontman and does everything.
Everyone helps and that why even though they're getting older, they're getting better.
I listen to one of their songs every single day and I have exactly 100.
Each album is great in its own way I really can't choose.
Except for the ever powering Everlong...but Aint it the Life is up there...
ANYWAY I think Ain't it the Life is about---------------
Haley is an actor friend of his, and as the mocking "Stacked Actors" states he doesn't like them.
He's saying sarcastically, "save me from my great life!", and then realistically "for god sakes, whats so great about being an actor you barely get by!"
Hey wait i thought you made the fake crown on your head? Since you think you're so great, why am i making your sense of importance leave you?
Why are you always tired? get soem sleep and think about that!
Try living your life like that doing the same thing all the time, just wasting time and waiting for WHAT?!
I LOOK ORDINARY but I'm different than you other celebrities because in a time of crisis i have real emotions and its not fake...
You can quit and stay dong the same thing every day--god job actors!!--- (basically)
or you can leave and do whatever you want in the world--within the divide--the divide of fame. once you go theres no going back.
Throughout the chorus Dave and the Foo Fighters basically sit back and say "wow" ain't it the life? while they're having a great time being a band....
i know i have no life [gasp]

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