I Don't Want to Live Forever
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE ONE]
Separate the sinners from the few,
who have been blessed with a pleasant eternal view.
What once begun must come undone.
This dying light never looked so good before...
[Just step outside and] shut the door... (SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR)
[BRIDGE]
If you uncover the secrets to eternity,
will you ever truly leave a legacy?
If you really want to live for infinity,
how do you ever plan to make it through the end of days?
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE TWO]
Deemed immortal is your soul,
after life's agenda has taken it's toll.
There's got to be an end, to everything we do,
but we don't have to sitting around waiting for it's cue.
(LIVE FAST, DIE BEAUTIFUL; LIVE SLOW, DIE COMFORTABLE)
[BRIDGE]
If you uncover the secrets to eternity,
will you ever truly leave a legacy?
If you really want to live for infinity,
how do you ever plan to make it through the end of days?
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE THREE]
Now I'm not saying that today I want to die,
or by tomorrow I'll no longer be alive,
but what would we appreciate if everything gold could stay?
what would we fear if we knew death wasn't something in our way?
(NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY)
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE ONE]
Separate the sinners from the few,
who have been blessed with a pleasant eternal view.
What once begun must come undone.
This dying light never looked so good before...
[Just step outside and] shut the door... (SHUT THE FUCKING DOOR)
[BRIDGE]
If you uncover the secrets to eternity,
will you ever truly leave a legacy?
If you really want to live for infinity,
how do you ever plan to make it through the end of days?
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE TWO]
Deemed immortal is your soul,
after life's agenda has taken it's toll.
There's got to be an end, to everything we do,
but we don't have to sitting around waiting for it's cue.
(LIVE FAST, DIE BEAUTIFUL; LIVE SLOW, DIE COMFORTABLE)
[BRIDGE]
If you uncover the secrets to eternity,
will you ever truly leave a legacy?
If you really want to live for infinity,
how do you ever plan to make it through the end of days?
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
[VERSE THREE]
Now I'm not saying that today I want to die,
or by tomorrow I'll no longer be alive,
but what would we appreciate if everything gold could stay?
what would we fear if we knew death wasn't something in our way?
(NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY)
[CHORUS]
Am I the only one that doesn't want to live forever?
One day my time will come and I'll surrender.
I'm living for today,
you're shaping your tomorrow;
fighting for eternal life...
I'll leave my mark and be remembered,
but I don't want to live forever.
♠ ♠ ♠
Something I wrote recently but am still not completely satisfied with. There are quite a few spots in here that I think could be better, but haven't figured out exactly how to fix it yet. it'll come to me one of these days, though (I hope, lol). Basically I was listening to BVB and when the lyric "everybody wants eternal life, nobody can seem to get it right" played I started thinking about how I really don't want to live forever, here on Earth or in the afterlife (in fact, infinity has been a fear of mine since I was about 5 years old), and decided to try to write something about it.