Well, I was walking down the street

Of a fine, fine city

And then a man, he came up to me and he said

Can you spare me some change?

I said no, no, no, no, not today

Well that man came on runnin' up to me

He asked me if I had ever read

If I have ever read

He said have you ever read?

The book of life!

Well I said no sir

I haven't ever read the book of life

Thought to myself

That sure as hell sounds fascinating

I just kept on going

I had places to be

And people to see

And important things to do

Carried on about my business

And I'm walking down this cold street

My feet crunching the snow

Cars swimming by

Then I see the steam rising up out the subway

And I gotta go on down there

So I go down, down, down

All the way down

To where the train is zoomin' by

And then the silence

And down from the corner

From the dark end of a strange way

I heard this band playin'

And this band was good

So I go up to that band

And I throw some money in their guitar case

And I say hey band!

What's the name of your band?

And they said "the book of life! "

Yeah, the book of life, yeah!

It was the book of life, yeah!

Did the old man and the band know each other?

Who knows?

Nobody can really know

But we can all put it inside the book of life

The book of life!