I Dont Want To Live Forever

Em
You've got beet blood in your mouth 
and lies in your artichoked heart
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you’re black eyes stalking through 
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me
Em
with a birdcage for ribs, that 
vultures trying to get out
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it’s scratching your kidney wings
Em
we’re no longer feeding ourselves, 
the raccoons are eating our dreams
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pushing past our feeblery to keep 
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them out, this morning I heard one 
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sing:
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there's a whole big world out 
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there my son, be careful don't 
believe them.
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there's a crazy old lady in the 
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sun, she's angry can't you feel it?
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if you don’t work hard you’re no 
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son of mine, well I’ve earned these 
riverbeds
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& I’ll drown you out until you’ve
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 made me proud if you won’t learn 
you’re better off dead.
Em
so, I’m digging in this farm yard 
trying to find the seeds
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forgetting all I have left in this
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 world of course that includes me
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Em
so I’m building and I’m learning and
 leaving nothing unsaid
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all I am is all I have, I’ll take
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 this garden for my bed
Em
and these are not just words built 
like a city of dreams, we have no 
use for this kingdom
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I’m proud of you my friends, may 
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your lives be a symphony of freedom

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I don't want to live forever. I just
 want to live for now
Em
but the angel on my doorstep keeps 
pointing me towards that plow
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so I’m digging in with both my 
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hands, keeping one eye on the door
Em
If I go looking I’ll probably find 
it, ...and get all I’ve been asking 
for

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I don't want to live forever. I just
 want to live for me
Em
but your faces just keep haunting 
...sometimes it’s all I see
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so I’m working hard at learning 
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all I can I’m gonna give it all to 
you
Em
I’ll keep making payments, until 
we’re all so straight and true

Em
I want to paint seeds together, and 
follow you right up to the edge
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filled up and spilling like 
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carried cups, and watch the sun go 
red
Em
but there’s poison right here in our
 water, and a shark somewhere in the
 well
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I wanna show you my life, show me 
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your life and tell me it’s not the 
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devil
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I guess I I feel the way I feel, you
 make me feel like I‘m alive...
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and I’m alive, am I alive, i am 
alive so you can live...
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fret
please come and live, why don’t you 
live, you can live inside of me...
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fret
there’s a home for you inside me, 
inside of me there is a fire
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inside my fire, there is more 
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fire, and in that fire there is 
truth