Calm to the beach, chill by the sea See how your heavy life looks from the coastline On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach Calm to the beach, swim to the deep See how your heavy life looks through the blue sky On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach While you're wearing a raincoat with rolled up arms The same karaoke in a hotel bar You give off this aura of loss and sadness And you're grabbing my hands like they're handlebars Bicycle wheels, I could take you far Away from this charade and all this madness So calm to the beach, chill by the sea See how your heavy life looks from the coastline On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach Calm to the beach, swim to the deep See how your heavy life looks through the blue sky On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach On the Hollywood hustle to pay your rent And live in a bubble with a one percent As if that kin will gift you immortality And you spend every birthday fixated on The people you know and how far they've gone Like what you see is the end, really, I'm yelling So calm to the beach, chill by the sea See how your heavy life looks from the coastline On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach Calm to the beach, swim to the deep See how your heavy life looks through the blue sky On the retreat, Viva la vie, calm to the beach