Listener - I dont want to live forever
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GYou've got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichoked heart
Gyou’re black eyeFs stalking througGh me
Gwith a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get out
Git’s scratching youFr kidneGy wings
Gwe’re no longer feeding ourselves, the raccoons are eating our dreams
Gpushing past our feeblery to keep them out, tFhis morning I heard one Gsing:
Fthere's a whole big world out there my Fson, be careful don't believe them.
Gthere's a crazy old lady in the sun, she's Gangry can't you feel it?
Fif you don’t work harFd you’re no sonF of mFine, wFell IF’ve earned these riverbeds
G& I’ll drown youG out until you’veG made me GproudG if youG won’t learn you’re better off dead.
Gso, I’m digging in this farm yard trying to find the seeds
Gforgetting all I have left in this world oFf course that iGncludes me
Gso I’m building and I’m learning and leaving nothing unsaid
Gall I am is all I have, FI’ll take this garden for mGy bed
Gand these are not just words built like a city of dreams, we have no use for this kingdom
GI’m proud of you my friends, may your livesF be a symphony oGf freedom
FI don't want to live forever. GI just want to live for now
Gbut the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing me towards that plow
Fso I’m digging in with both my handsG, keeping one eye on the door
GIf I go looking I’ll probably find it, ...and get all I’ve been asking for
FI don't want to live forever. GI just want to live for me
Gbut your faces just keep haunting ...sometimes it’s all I see
Fso I’m working hard at learning all GI can I’m gonna give it all to you
GI’ll keep making payments, until we’re all so straight and true
GI want to paint seeds together, and follow you right up to the edge
Gfilled up and spilling like carried cups, and Fwatch the sun go Gred
Gbut there’s poison right here in our water, and a shark somewhere in the well
GI wanna show you my life, show me your life and Ftell me it’s not thGe devil
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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
Finside my fire, there is more fire, and in Gthat 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