living is not being alive,
living is the act of filling life
life, of what happens when you laugh

Having lived a chaotic childhood, and quite a bit of my young adulthood also (family related) it wasn't until I had my own children and chose a much different path that even allowed me to at times to live the lost childhood I experienced through them. Laughter, love, nurturing turned it around for me, this and not painful memories that overshadowed what few good times I had as a child...there was a lot of emotional baggage to dig through to see the message contained within those few lines written in that song. Thank you for sharing.