Symphony (Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles Version)

Hey-hey-hey, you're ready to go?

Alright, let's do it

Ever since I was young, coming up, coming up

Always marching to a drum, bra-da-dum, bra-da-dum

Always focused on me, one-one, one-one

Now I wish that I could hold someone, someone

So tell my mom I love her, call my baby sister

Should've hugged and kissed her 'cause life is just a mystery

And it's gone before you know it

So, if you love me, won't you show it? Hmm

'Cause this life is one big symphony

This night is one for you and me

I'm the strings and you're the timpani

You're my constant tambourine

This life is one big symphony

So glad I've got you next to me

I'm the chords and you're the melody

This life's one big symphony

She was the piano, I'm the xylophone

You can have the trumpet, I'm the saxophone

Life is skipping rope, keep going, keep going

Finding solace in a note, dote-dote, dote-dote

Had to struggle when I was broke, so low, so low

Writing music just to cope, no hope, no hope

Yeah, life is just perspective, laughing when you've wrecked it

Smiling when you kept it together, you weathered the storm

At the end of the play, you sang all the way

Doesn't matter how off-key if you did it your way

This life is one big symphony

This night is one for you and me

I'm the strings and you're the timpani

You're my constant tambourine

This life is one big symphony

So glad I've got you next to me

I'm the chords and you're the melody

This life's one big symphony

Would you care if I played you the flute?

See, it's my favorite one because it's so delicate and beautiful

I pull out the trombone if it's more suitable

Wanna make you smile, it's been a little while

Since I've seen the white of your teeth

Been a hard year, lucky the guitar's here, ha

Life is just one big symphony

This life is one big symphony