Country

Mild Rock

Mariachi

Verse 1

Here is a song for the people ‘bout some things I've thought through
While living off the land this past year or two.
Walkin’, talkin’, ridin’, and eatin’ rabbit stew,
I found what my parents always knew.

[verse 2]

I didn't know I was happy living with Dad and Mom;

Meat on the table, cars in the garage.

But starving through Wyoming made me see

The good life my folks gave me.

[Chorus]

Well you've got to taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet.

The cold is defined by the presence of heat.

Life becomes more real as death sneaks to steal,

And war shows the joys of peace.

[short solo]

[verse 3]
While living down in Bakersfield, I stayed with Dave.
A heaven with no problems he'd been taught to crave.
Removal of his negatives was gained with a pill,
As pushers made their heaven from poor Dave's hell.

[verse 4]
Now each leaves one’s Eden; it seems a holy plan.
That through pains of living we are taught to stand.
We grow through resistance; troubles make us strong.
For an easy heaven I don't long.

[Chorus]

Well you've got to taste the bitter to appreciate the sweet.

The cold is defined by the presence of the heat.

Life becomes more real as death sneaks to steal,

And war shows the joys of peace.

(short solo)

For it must needs be, that there is an 
opposition in all things.
If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness,
righteousness could not be brought to pass,
neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery,
neither good nor bad.

Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one;
wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead,
having no life neither death,
nor corruption nor incorruption,
happiness nor misery,
neither sense nor insensibility. . . .

And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man,
after He had created our first parents,
and the beasts of the field
and the fowls of the air, and in fine, 
all things which are created,
it must needs be that there was an 
opposition;
even the forbidden fruit 
in opposition to the tree of life;
the one being sweet and the other bitter.

[solo ending]