Life’s Too Short (outtake) Songtext
von Kristen Anderson‐Lopez

As we were developing Frozen
One of the songs we knew we had to write was the song between Elsa and Anna
At the end of which Elsa had to freeze Anna′s heart with a blast of magic
This first was more confrontational than what ultimately ended up in the movie
But we enjoyed going to that drama place
In this version, Anna's solution to this problem is for Elsa to put the gloves back on
And this is the thing that really sets Elsa off
It′s called, "Life's too short"

I came all this way, today, to give us a fresh start
But now that you're like "wow!", it′s all like warm in the heart
I′m so glad you like it, sis, 'cause this is the real me
You have no idea, how great it feels to be free

We′ve been falling out for way too long
So let's forget who′s right
And forget who's wrong
Okay!
Why don′t you stay? There's room for family in my court


Cause life's too short
To always feel shut out and unloved by the sister I long to know
Life′s too short
To never let you celebrate me, the true queen of the ice and snow
Woohoo-hoo
I never (I never understood) understood, but now I do
Life′s too short to miss out on a sister like you

So you'll come back, then
Back?
To thaw the fjord, it′s frozen over, no one can get in or out?
Oh
So...
I don't believe you!
What? I just assumed that you would have to...

That I′ll shove on the gloves, that's how your story ends?
It does! It′s just like it was, except for we'll be best friends
So that's in your plan, to force me back in a cage?
Whoa, whoa! Don′t get upset let′s get back on the same page
Gee, thanks for coming up to see the place
And showing off your mastery of tact and grace
Okay! Run down the hill and spill my secrets, make a full report! Bye-bye!


Wait!
Cause life's too short
There it is! The door you′d love to slam in my face!
You did well there for a spell, but now you're back in the same place
Kick me out if you want, but I′m the only one who
Is not one hundred percent convinced the prophecy's you!

You can think whatever you want ′cause I don't care
You're a fool who married a stranger!
That is so unfair!
I swear I′m through with taking your unshaking sisterly support! (support, support!)

Ha! Life′s too short!
To let you treat the people down there just as coldly as you always (la la lalala laaaa) treated me
Life's too short!
To listen to a reckless fool who only ever sees the things she wants to see
You don′t know (you have no idea)
What I've been through because of you

Life′s too short to waste another minute
Life's too short to even have you in it
Life′s too short

I've been so wrong about you
You?! You've been so wrong about everything
Maybe you are the prophecy!
I am not the prophecy!