It's Only Life

1980 Warsaw winter
Teenage mother
two-room apartment
Footsteps running
down the hallway
Shouting he's frightened
Calling he won't answer.

It's no rehearsal
No second chances
it's now or never
A starry eyed romance.

It's only striking out alone
It's only losing all your own
It's only life without him
It's only sacrifice
It's only to thyself be true
It's only what she has to do
It's only more than
any heart can take
It's only life.

Another country
another language
Nearly 30 winters later
A daughter who barely knew
her father
But still he haunts her
Love and her emotions.

She has a lover
she really wants him
But she remembers the man
who ran away.

It's only striking out alone
It's only losing all you own
It's only life without him
It's only sacrifice
It's only to thyself be true
It's only what she has to do
It's only more than that
any heart can take.

She hears the footsteps
Her chilhood calling
She knows she loves him
Defences fallin`
She knows he loves her
Its now or never
She`ll seize the day
She says she`ll stay.

It's only in another star
It's only giving up a heart
It's only for a lifetime
It's only sacrifice.

It's only to thyself be true
It's only what she has to do
It's only what she knows
her heart can take
It's only life
It's only life
It's only life.