“LIVIN´ON THE EDGE” AEROSMITH - Song and presentation material

Song can be heared in ------> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8mdq6fzzYM

There's somethin' wrong

with the world today

I don't know what it is

Something's wrong with our eyes

We're seein' things in a different way

And God knows it ain't his

It shore ain't no surprise

Livin' on the edge

Livin' on the edge

Livin' on the edge

Livin' on the edge

There's somethin' wrong

with the world today

The light bulb's gettin dim

There's meltdown in the sky

If you can judge a wise man

By the color of his skin

Then mister you're a better man than I

[Chorus:] Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself from fallin'

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself at all

Livin' on the edge

You can't stop yourself from fallin

'Livin' on the edge

Tell me what you think

about your sit-u-a-tion

Complication - aggravation

Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you

that the sky is fallin

'Even if it wasn't would you

still come crawlin

'Back againI bet you would my friend

Again & again & again & again & again

Tell me what you think

about your sit-u-a-tion

Complication - aggravation

Is getting to you

If chicken little tells you

that the sky is fallin

'Even if it was would you

still come crawlin

'Back againI bet you would my friend

Again & again & again & again

Something right with the world today

And everybody knows it's wrong

But we can tell 'em no orwe could let it go

But I'd would rather be a hanging on

[Chorus] Livin' on the edge

Livin' on the edge

Livin' on the edge

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

[Chorus] Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself

You can't help yourself

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself at all

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself

You can't help yourself

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself

You can't help yourself

Livin' on the edge

You can't help yourself from fallin'



"Livin' on the Edge" is a song by American hard rock band Aerosmith. It was released in 1993 as the second single from the band's commercially successful album Get a Grip. The song was written by Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, and Mark Hudson. In “Livin’ on the Edge” Mark talks about his experiences with rocks’ elite through monologues, funny anecdotes, impersonations and lots of music. The stories will leave you in stitches and the songs will keep playing in your head. His colorful outfits, colorful facial hair and colorful wit will hook you right from the start.
The song received much critical acclaim and won a Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the year 1993. The popular video for the song earned the band a Viewer's Choice award at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards.




What the Critics Say
Get a Grip turned out to be one of Aerosmith's most contrived and contemptible records, but fans never would have known from advance EP Livin' on the Edge, which whips out two extra, exceptional treats. First, two stripped-down demos of the apocalyptic, Yardbirds-referencing "Livin' on the Edge" bring out the quintet's individual contributions much clearer than the glossed-over album version. And the dilapidating finale fits the song better as well.
Doug Stone, All Music Guide



OUR OPINION
We decide to choose this song because we can understand many things that are wrong in the world, and bring some possibilities that not are explicit in the song, to solve these big problems. In the same way with the lyric we can see some of the reasons of why the world has these changes. We Think that It´s a good song that represent many feelings of the modern society, for example don’t see beyond of the reality, that have like consequence that when people solve problems don’t bring the best solution. On the other hand we need to learn to understand the other people and their beliefs, and the song show the importance of this aspect. Like a consequence of this discrimination, we can see many wars in the world for this reason, then is very important to learn to accept the other people with their beliefs and probably, we can life in peace and in a better world. Furthermore we need to fight with the racism, other method to discriminate, because in some cases we offend people without realizing, and this probable cause that the world doesn’t evolucionate at maximum. To conclude we need to understand some things of the world, and learn to tolerate to all the people, and if we can do that, we can life in a better world.