Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song I don't want to live forever , by - Listener. Release date: 31.07.2010
Song language: English
I don't want to live forever |
| You’ve got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichoked heart |
| You’re black eyes stalking through me |
| With a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get out |
| It’s scratching your kidney wings |
| We’re no longer feeding ourselves, the raccoons are eating our dreams |
| Pushing past our feeblery to keep them out, this morning I heard one sing: |
| There’s a whole big world out there my son, be careful don’t believe them. |
| There’s a crazy old lady in the sun, she’s angry can’t you feel it? |
| If you don’t work hard you’re no son of mine, well I’ve earned these riverbeds |
| And I’ll drown you out until you’ve made me proud if you won’t learn you’re |
| better off dead. |
| So, I’m digging in this farm yard trying to find the seeds |
| Forgetting all I have left in this world of course that includes me |
| So I’m digging and I’m learning and leaving nothing unsaid |
| All I am is all I have, I’ll take this garden for my bed |
| And these are not just words built like a city of dreams, we have no use for |
| this kingdom |
| I’m proud of you my friends, may your lives be a symphony of freedom |
| I don’t want to live forever. |
| I just want to live for now |
| But the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing me towards that plow |
| So I’m digging in with both my hands, keeping one eye on the door |
| If I go looking I’ll probably find it, and get all I’ve been asking for |
| I don’t want to live forever. |
| I just want to live for me |
| But your face just keeps haunting, sometimes it’s all I see |
| So I’m working hard at learning all I can I’m gonna give it all to you |
| I’ll keep making payments, until we’re all so straight and true |
| We’re all so straight and true, we’re all so straight and true |
| I want to paint seeds together, and follow you right up to the edge |
| Filled up and spilling like carried cups, and watch the sun go red |
| But there’s poison right here in our water, and a shark somewhere in the well |
| I wanna show you my life, show me your life and tell me it’s not the devil |
| I guess I feel the way I feel, you make me feel like I‘m alive |
| And I’m alive, am I alive? |
| I am alive so you can live |
| Please come and live, why don’t you live, you can live inside of me |
| There’s a home for you inside me, inside of me there is a fire |
| Inside that fire, there is more fire, and in that fire there is truth |
| 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 and 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 |
| 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 up 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 |
| I haven’t died at all this year, I haven’t died at all this year |
| I haven’t died at all this year. |