Roller Coaster

Life is a roller coaster
Your happiness climbs 300 feet in the air
Then drops unexpectedly
At speeds you’ve never experienced before

The exhilaration is just too much for you
Your stomach cries inside
And your down very low wishing...
Wishing you can be at the top
Like the people behind you
And the people in front of you

Then your self-esteem picks up
And takes another ride up hill
You fill up with enjoyment
But in the back of your head
You know that everything-
Will soon be going down

And when you reach the top
Seconds to falling down
Your stomach twist and tangles up
It’s the reminder of where you are heading
Your happiness is at its peak
You can’t go any higher
There’s only one way to go

The tracks lead you to your other side
Your broken side that you keep down low
Your hopes and dreams are up high
Your problems and sorrow down low
And your life, the roller coaster
Takes you through it all

As you move up again, getting closer to heaven
Trying to ride as high as you can
You always run into the same problem
The tracks in your life simply aren’t made-
To complete a task like that
They can only go up s far and then-
Lead you straight back to hell

Every time you fall back down
Its that much harder to climb back up
Because your life slows down
Just like a rollercoaster towards the end of the ride
You don’t even bother trying to climb back up
Because you know exactly where you are going
The person beside you on that very same coaster telling you-
Everything will be okay, just keep your hopes high
You already know that- it’s just a matter of you staying happy

After a few years on the roller coaster
You finally come to realization
It's impossible to keep your happiness,
In other words, your car at the top
Because you work your way up
And fall straight back down
And when you drop you wish more and more-
That you had the ability to fly
Because when your life has wings
There is no falling down

But it's impossible to fly
And every ones life works the same way
It goes up and down and up and down again
This is the cycle of everything
Until your not strong enough to pull yourself up