Well, there's a smile on my face
and I'm not saying it's a lie
But it's only the front page in a book where someone dies
And I can't really explain it, but somewhere along the line
I started feeling all my feelings at exactly the same time

And I'm an optimist by trade and I choose to see the light
But if I'm honest, I need breaks to rub
the darkness from my eyes
You call it naivety
I simply call it survivin'
My mental frame, it wasn't made
to sustain all of this violence

Being alive, being alive
I think it's killin' me, I, killin' me, I-
I feel everything, each little part
Being alive, being alive
I think it's killin' me, I, killin' me, I-
Cause I feel everything with this big stupid heart
With this big stupid heart

Woah, woah, woah

And I'm drawn to innocent spaces
like a moth to something bright
And I live for the conversations
where the tears fill up my eyes
But I crash hard into the pavement
when I'm abruptly reminded
That part of the human nature has an evil deep inside it

And I'm an optimist by trade and I choose to see the light
But if I'm honest, I need breaks
to rub the darkness from my eyes
You call it naivety
I simply call it survivin'
My mental frame, it wasn't made
to sustain all of this violence

Being alive, being alive
I think it's killin' me, I, killin' me, I-
I feel everything, each little part
Being alive, being alive
I think it's killin' me, I, killin' me, I-
Cause I feel everything with this big stupid heart
With this big stupid heart

(Woah, woah, woah)
Oh, this big stupid heart
Big stupid heart
Big stupid heart
With this big stupid heart