These are the ways I hope to change my life,
these are the vows I choose to make.
Make damn sure that when I take my final breath
I won't need to look back on my mistakes.

I raise my glass to the future
and not the past.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

And these are the people I'd like to thank
as I take my final bow,
all the ones who dared to shake me up
and all the ones who let me down.

I raise a toast
to flesh and not a ghost.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

I'd like to thank everyone who made this possible
from the bottom of my heart.
And now I'd like to bring on a very, very special
guest.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die.

Gonna take my dreams,
gonna live them by and by,
gonna live my life
sometime before I die ...