You've got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichoked heart
Youâre black eyes stalking through me
With a birdcage for ribs, that vultures trying to get out
Itâs scratching your kidney wings
Weâre 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 donât work hard youâre no son of mine, well Iâve earned these riverbeds
And Iâll drown you out until youâve made me proud if you wonât learn youâre better off dead.
So, Iâm digging in this farm yard trying to find the seeds
Forgetting all I have left in this world of course that includes me
So Iâm digging and Iâm learning and leaving nothing unsaid
All I am is all I have, Iâll 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
Iâm 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 Iâm digging in with both my hands, keeping one eye on the door
If I go looking Iâll probably find it, and get all Iâve been asking for
I don't want to live forever. I just want to live for me
But your face just keeps haunting, sometimes itâs all I see
So Iâm working hard at learning all I can Iâm gonna give it all to you
Iâll keep making payments, until weâre all so straight and true
Weâre all so straight and true, weâre 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 thereâs 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 itâs not the devil
I guess I feel the way I feel, you make me feel like Iâm alive
And Iâm alive, am I alive? I am alive so you can live
Please come and live, why donât you live, you can live inside of me
Thereâs 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, weâll 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
Itâs 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 donât want to listen, ears squinting for some honesty
Itâs 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 Iâm listening with idle hands cupped tight around both ears
My minds open like a burned down house, I havenât 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.