I don't want to live forever - Listener, Dan Smith

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.