When you turned seventeen

You said you'd follow your dream

And be an artist

You've found a comfortable niche

And though you're quite far from rich

Your life has started

Things are starting to click

Then you get very sick

The doc says cancer

Your passion barely pays bills

And you can't pay for the pills

Who has the answer?

Every hour of every day

Is so filled with these

Possibilities

In this life any choice you make

Can go up in flames

Can I win this game?

Am I doing it right

Doing it right?

I gotta put up a fight

Doing it right

Can I buckle down and save my world tonight?

Am I doing it right?

This girl is out of your league

But when you got on one knee

She said, "Let's do it"

You've got a mess of a life

But now your best friend's your wife

You might get through it

Months all fade into years

Then one day she's in tears

She says she's done pretending

She's gone and found someone new

He's ten times better than you

There goes your happy ending

Every hour of every day

We all flirt with these

These uncertainties

In this life any choice you make

Can go up in smoke

Is this some kind of joke?

Am I doing it right

Doing it right?

I gotta put up a fight

Doing it right

Can I buckle down and save my world tonight?

Half of the time

You feel you're out of your mind

You've got no clue where to look

There's no instructional book

You just stumble along

And maybe mumble a song

That you make up as you go

Because you just never know

You never know if they hate or if they like you

You never know if a move is the right move

You never know about the world, what it might do

'Cause sometimes, everything is going nice, and then

Like the best-laid plans of mice and men

It all blows up once and twice again

And every little decision that sounded great at the time

Has got you trapped in a cage of your own design

I feel like I'm a mix of Icarus and Sisyphus

I'm standing on the edge of this precipice and the question is

Am I doing it right?

Am I doing it right?

Doing it right

Am I doing it right?

Am I doing it right?

When the story ends will I say it was nice?

Am I doing it right?