I was comin' off of a heartache;
Addin' up all my mistake: you know how it is.
An' I was beatin' up myself up real good,
Over all those "shoulda coulds but never dids".
An' I could lose myself in my self-pity,
But I done that an' that ain't pretty,
An' somewhere in this mess I've made,
Is my philosophy.

That if you don't jump every chance you get,
Roll a dice an' run some risks,
If you don't fall, then how you ever gonna fly?
An' if you don't break an' you don't bruise,
If you don't look back an' laugh at one or two,
Wrong moves in your life,
You ain't doin' it right.

I've been flush an' flat broke,
Made some lousy bets, but that's ok, yeah that's all right.
'Cause never gamblin', never losin',
Is a sorry substitution for livin' life.
Yeah, I've got scars that I'm proud of,
I been down but I got up,
An' the only thing I know about love is,
There ain't no guarantees.

So if you don't jump every chance you get,
Roll a dice an' run some risks,
If you don't fall, then how you ever gonna fly?
An' if you don't break an' you don't bruise,
If you don't look back an' laugh at one or two,
Wrong moves in your life,
You ain't doin' it right.

So go ahead an' put the bow to the fiddle,
Pick you a spot an' jump in the middle,
Love just a little,
Then love just a little more.

If you don't jump every chance you get,
Roll a dice an' run some risks,
If you don't fall, then how you ever gonna fly?
And if you don't break an' you don't bruise,
And if you don't look back an' laugh at one or two,
Wrong moves in your life,
You ain't doin' it right.

Naw, you ain't doin' it right.