We Must Pay the Price

Everything in life has a price Someone must always pay Life begins and ends with a price If someone doesn't, you must somehow pay If you don't, who must then pay? You're earning income because you had to pay You're enjoying pleasure because you had to pay You're being punished because you had to pay You're called a lover because you had to pay You're seen as a friend because you had to pay You're on earth because a man and a woman had to pay you're secured because the security had to pay You're eating because the farmer had to pay You're reading this poem because the poet had to pay You're hopeful after death because God had to pay We enjoy free lunch now because someone before us paid the price We are independent now because someone before us paid the price We are healthy now because someone before us paid the price We are here paying once again because someone before us paid the price We can't refus to pay because someone before us paid the price