I Don't Want to Live Forever Songtext
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You don′t think it's too loud, do you?
(What?) You don′t think it's too loud, do you?
(No, you mean like in general?)
Yeah, just for everybody
(No, no I do it's good) let′s give it a go
(Crazy, here it comes)

You′ve got beet blood in your mouth
And lies in your artichoke heart
Your black eyes stalking through me
With a birdcage for ribs, that vulture's trying to get out
Oh, it′s scratching your kidney wings
We're no longer feeding ourselves

Oh, it′s the raccoons that are eating our dreams
Pushing past our feebler 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 'em


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 farmyard tryna to find the seeds
Forgettin′ all I have left in this world
Of course, that includes me
So I′m digging and I'm learning
Leaving nothing unsaid
All I am is all I have
I′ll take this garden for my bed

These are not just words built on 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


′Cause I don't want to live forever, no
I just want to live for now
But the angel on my doorstep keeps pointing 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, it 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
And 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 think it's sounding alright
Here we go

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 a poison somewhere in the water
And a shark right there in the well wanna
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
Here'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

We take our, take our furnace-chests
Run ′em neck deep into that lake
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 should never be
It can never be this easy
To wash away the fire that burns
We wash away our flames
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, just not in the pages of a book

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 then, yeah, I thought it was me too

I don′t want to live forever, I just want to live for us
But this head upon my shoulders
Keeps driving me to be careless
Our brains don′t want to listen
Ears squinting for some honesty
It gets slippery here, hold on
We are not ourselves probably
But 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 mind's open like a burned down house
I haven′t died at all this year

Oh, oh, I haven't died at all this year
Oh, I haven′t died at all this year
Oh, no, I haven't died at all this year
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