Life's Too Short
Kristen Anderson-Lopez Lyrics

I came all this way today to give us a fresh start
After all this time apart, I traveled here to start anew

But now that you're like wow it's all like warm in my heart
Seeing you has made me feel happy and connected again

I'm so glad you like it sis 'cause this is the real me
I'm happy that you appreciate the real me, not who you thought I was

You have no idea how great it feels to be free
Finally breaking free from our past conflicts is such a relief

We've been falling out for way too long, so let's forget who's right
Our argument has gone on for years, let's put it behind us

And forget who's wrong
We don't need to focus on who was right or wrong, just move forward

Why don't you stay, there's room for family in my court
You can stay with me, we can be a family again and work through our issues

'Cause life's too short
We shouldn't waste our lives on this fight, it's not worth it

To always feel shut out and unloved by the sister I long to know
It's painful and hard to always feel like you don't love me

To never let you celebrate me, the true queen of the ice and snow
You never appreciated me for who I am, the powerful queen of ice and snow

I never understood, but now I do
I didn't get it before, but I do now

Life's too short to miss out on a sister like you
It's not worth it to miss out on having a sister like you in my life

So you'll come back, then.
You'll come back to me and we can heal our relationship

Back?
You don't believe me, do you?

To thaw the fjord, it's frozen over, no one can get in or out?
We can work together to solve this issue and unthaw the fjord

So
Let's do this, let's solve this issue

I don't believe you!
I know you don't believe me, but it's worth a shot

What?! I just assumed that you would have to...
I thought you would have to put on the ice gloves to unthaw the fjord

That I'll shove on the gloves, that's how your story ends?!
You think that's the only way to fix the issue? That I'll have to do it?

It does ! It's just like it was, except for we'll be best friends
Everything will go back to normal, except we'll be even closer friends than before

So that's in your plan to force me back in a cage
You think I'm trying to manipulate you into doing what I want

Whoa, whoa!
Hold on a minute

Don't get upset let's get back on the same page
Let's not let this become an argument, let's work together

Gee, thanks for coming up to see the place
Thanks for coming to see me

And showing off your mastery of tact and grace, okay!
Thanks for showing how sarcastic you can be

Run down the hill and spill my secrets, make a full report!
Go ahead and tell everyone what happened here, I don't care

Bye-bye!
Goodbye!

Wait!
Hold on!

'Cause life's too short
We should try to make peace, life is too short to hold grudges

There it is! The door you'd love to slam in my face!
You're already thinking about how you can leave this place and me behind

You did well there for a spell, but now you're back in the same place
We were doing well for a bit, but now we're back to arguing

Kick me out if you want, but I'm the only one who is
You can kick me out, but I'm the only one who can help fix the issue with the fjord

Not one hundred percent convinced the prophecy's you!
I'm not convinced that you're actually the prophecy

You can think whatever you want 'cause I don't care
You can think I'm wrong, but it doesn't matter to me

You're a fool who married a stranger!
You married someone you barely knew, you're a fool

That is so unfair
That's an unfair and oversimplified statement

I swear I'm through with taking your unshaking sisterly support!
I don't want your help anymore, I'd rather fix the issue on my own

HAH! Life's too short!
This conflict isn't worth spending any more time on

To let you treat the people down there just as coldly as you always treated me
It's wrong to treat people poorly, just as you treated me poorly

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Life's too short!
We need to work together and fix our issues, because life is short

To listen to a reckless fool who only ever sees the things she wants to see
I can't take advice from someone who only thinks about themselves

You don't know
You're wrong, you don't understand

You have no idea
You don't know the whole story

What I've been through
What I've experienced is something only I know

Because of you
It's because of our past conflict

Life's too short to waste another minute
We've wasted enough time on this argument

Life's too short to even have you in it
I can't spend my life fighting with you

Life's too short
We need to make up and move forward

I've been so wrong about you
I thought you were someone else entirely

You?! You've been so wrong about everything.
You're the one who's been wrong, not me

Maybe you are the prophecy!
Maybe you actually are the prophecy

I am not the prophecy!
I am not the prophecy, stop saying that!