Listener - I Don't Want To Live Forever Lyrics
You've got beet blood in your mouth and lies in your artichokes 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 & 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 building 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 faces just keep 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
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 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 my 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 & 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.
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Listener I Don't Want To Live Forever Comments
He's doing the Paul Rudd slappa da bass dance
Dan keeping headphones on is more challenging than an armless blind man tossing a dart to a dartboard and hitting a bullseye
wow! how emotional and powerful! like that sound
I got some Pixies vibes.
Nice one
I rocked out of my headphones as well.
great!!!
I'm so ecstatic I found this raw talent, I appreciate their dramatic ability of expression..right in the feels
Magnificent.
I love this band maybe a little bit too much, their lyrics and their music is just perfect
Well looking forward to these guys at ATG!
This sounds better than the album version
I SAID MY HEART SAW FIRE, MY HEART SAID ESCAPE
I can't believe how good this band is. There's so much feelings in every song. And lyrics are just perfection.
anyone here after seeing Taylor swifts screenshot on insta😂😂😂😂😂😍😍😍😍😘
Meee 😂😂😂
SHARK! RIGHT THERE!
"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"
Why did it take me so long to find these guys?
This is more poetry set to music then a song
Whichever way it is, I meant it as a compliment
No problem dude, its just sometimes hard to understand over such a disembodied platform, still though the music/poetry is pretty sweet, glad your also a fan
a song "should be" just a poem with music set to it...
wtf is this????
+Eon Goanaa spoken-word rock
pretty cool and uniqe genre
this is beautiful
so deep
His headphones fell off and he went on like nothing fucking happened... And now I love this band forever... Because on top of that, the music is great! :D
HOLY SHIT! I just realized I have that exact same guitar haha.
Its a lot harder to enjoy this with the over bearing drums and echoed out vocals.
Listener is so different and ..I Like it!
I jst heard this song for the first time and it ripped my soul out and brought me to tears..love it! i lost two sons this year, and i HATE that "I HAVEN'T DIED AT ALL THIS YEAR!!"
cant begin to fathom that
my sincere condolences. I hope you still haven't. I hope you have found hope again. peace to you and yours.
newsflash: you're not going to live forever, duh
he obviously doesnt want to. lol.
I want to live forever.
i just wanna live for now. i dont wanna live forever. i wanna live for me.
I had a chance to meet these guys in Grand Rapids. They sound just like this in person. And Dan really does talk like this. He is such an awesome person.
I love how his headphones fall off and he's still going. Even though they're hitting his leg.
Joshua Bell yeah we saw the video
@Rooster Cockburn I dont know if you're agreeing or just being a passive aggressive ass for no apparent reason.
I was just about to comment that.. until the comment from 5yrs ago was on that same wavelength
DIs good shit
Theres a whole big world out there my son...
Be carefull don't believe 'em.
These guys totally kick ass.
am so happy you guys make music [ ':
I adore this band, musically and emotionally.
Boom! Good Stuff.