They say we are what we are
But we don't have to be
On bad behavior, but I do it in the best way
I'll be the watcher (watcher) of the eternal flame
I'll be the guard dog of all your fever dreams

(Ooh)
I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass (glass, glass)
(Ooh)
I try to picture me without you but I can't

'Cause we could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long
And live with me forever now
Pull the blackout curtains down
Just not for long, for long
We could be immor-immortals
Immor-immortals
Immor-immortals
Immor-immortals

Sometimes the only pay off for having any faith
Is when it's tested again and again everyday
I'm still comparing your past to my future
It might be your wound but they're my sutures

(Ooh)
I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass (glass, glass)
(Ooh)
I try to picture me without you, but I can't

'Cause we could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long
And live with me forever now
Pull the blackout curtains down
Just not for long, for long
We could be immor-immortals
Immor-immortals

(Immortals)
And live with me forever now
Pull the blackout curtains down

We could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long
We could be immor-immortals
Immor-immortals
Immor-immortals
Immor-immortals
(Immortals)


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Immortals Lyrics as written by Joe Trohman Andy Hurley

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    There is some depth here that hasn’t been identified.

    “I try to picture me without out you but I can’t” - Painful reality. Obviously saying it is painful to think about losing someone we love, so we simply don’t think about it.

    “Cause we could be immortals” - Content fantasy. Since we never ponder losing those we love, we have made them and ourselves immortal in our own mind.

    “Just not for long” - painful reality. It is inevitable that we will lose those we love.

    “And live with me forever now” - content fantasy. Back to avoiding the pain of knowing you will lose someone you love and the mindset that the current condition will last forever.

    “You pull the blackout curtains down” - Painful reality. This is the moment when the loved one has actually passed. That which you have denied in your own mind has come to be.

    “Just not for long” - content fantasy. Even after reality sets in, the mind pleads for it not to be true and you try to convince yourself it isn’t real.

    In summary, these lines taken together in rapid succession as in the song emotes what happens to us when we lose a loved one. An emotional turmoil going back and forth between remembering contentment and what we took for granted at the time vs the pain of the immediate loss and not wanting to accept it.

    rodddxl102on January 27, 2018   Link

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