Listener - I dont want to live forever
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EYou've got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichoked heart
Ayou're black eyes Cstalking through Dme
Ewith a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get out
Ait's scratching your Ckidney Dwings
Ewe're no longer feeding ourselves, the raccoons are eating our dreams
Apushing past our feeblery to keep them out, tChis morning I heard one Dsing:
Cthere's a whole big world out there my Cson, be careful don't believe them.
Dthere's a crazy old lady in the sun, she's Dangry can't you feel it'
Cif you don't work hard Cyou're no son of Cmine,C well CI've Cearned these riverbeds
D& I'll drown you oDut until you've madDe me prouDd if Dyou wonD't learn you're better off dead.
Eso, I'm digging in this farm yard trying to find the seeds
Aforgetting all I have left in this world oCf course that iDncludes me
Eso I'm building and I'm learning and leaving nothing unsaid
Aall I am is all I have, CI'll take this garden for my Dbed
Eand these are not just words built like a city of dreams, we have no use for this kingdom
AI'm proud of you my friends, may your lives bCe a symphony of Dfreedom
CI don't want to live forever. DI just want to live for now
Ebut the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing me towards that plow
Cso I'm digging in with both my hands, Dkeeping one eye on the door
EIf I go looking I'll probably find it, ...and get all I've been asking for
CI don't want to live forever. DI just want to live for me
Ebut your faces just keep haunting ...sometimes it's all I see
Cso I'm working hard at learning all I Dcan I'm gonna give it all to you
EI'll keep making payments, until we're all so straight and true
EI want to paint seeds together, and follow you right up to the edge
Afilled up and spilling like carried cups, and Cwatch the sun go Dred
Ebut there's poison right here in our water, and a shark somewhere in the well
AI wanna show you my life, show me your life and Ctell me it's not the Ddevil
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I guess I I feel the way I feel, you make me feel like I'm alive...
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and I'm alive, am I alive, i am alive so you can live...
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please come and live, why don't you live, you can live inside of me...
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there's a home for you inside me, inside of me there is a fire
Cinside my fire, there is more fire, and in Dthat fire there is truth
Chord Progression repeats throughout slows down at "it's the beauty..."
but we take our furnace-chests, and run em neck deep into that lake
and let the coals stare us down, one last glare of doubt & hate
but we were wrong, no I was wrong, we'll just be wrong about some things
and it will never be, it can never be, it should never be this easy
to wash away the fire that burns, we wash away our flame
my eyes saw fire, my heart said escape
i said my eyes saw fire, my heart did escape
it's the beauty in the struggle has me going keeps me shook
sometimes I can see it in your face God but not in the pages of a book
and there's something in your eye that's asking
I got no answers, just clues for a path to truth
I thought it was you. but yeah, I thought it was me too.
I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for us
but the head on my shoulders keeps driving me to be careless
our brains don't want to listen, ears squinting for some honesty
it's gets slippery here, hold on....we are not ourselves probably
I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for you
but the devil round my doorway keeps singing me something new
so I'm listening with idle hands cupped tight around both ears
my minds open like a burned down house, I haven't died at all this year