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Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) Lyrics
Imagination
That's the way that it seems
Man can only live in his dreams
Oh, it seems so hard
If I'd lived a thousand times before
And if I'm going to live anymore
Always brings me down
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinking that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoa
The feeling in my head starts heading south
It seems it stops the fever from shooting out of my mouth
Life gushing all around
Everyone wants to live forever
Thinking that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoa
That's the way that it seems
Man can only live in his dreams
Oh, it seems so hard
And if I'm going to live anymore
Always brings me down
Thinking that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoa
It seems it stops the fever from shooting out of my mouth
Life gushing all around
Thinking that it'd be a lot better
Everyone wants to live forever, whoa
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To sum it up, "Everyone wants to live forever, thinking that it will be a lot better." But would it?
Excellent song, one of the greatest bands around, pretty easy meaning as you said.
But isn't more than that somewhat, somehow. He's hypothesizing the effects of one who lives forever and how someone would become so sick of life like it's a disease that becomes life and he relates it (as an acid-man like wayne would) to dry heaving. But forever, is immaculate and terrifyingly infinite, which means we all desire what cannot be comprehended or within our grasp...like the tree of knowledge that's forbidden or something to that effect maybe? Seeing as how forever is more than what a brain can comprehend, it would be more than anyone could handle. Yet we still want it, because being alive is something sacred. IF it it wasn't, then would it hold those same sacred qualities? that makes the flaming lips say "whoa"
Is this a fucking awsome band or what!?!?! What is it about these guys that captures love so indefinatly, probably acid, either way, Hit Me Like you Did The First Time
Is this a fucking awsome band or what!?!?! What is it about these guys that captures love so indefinatly, probably acid, either way, Hit Me Like you Did The First Time
best title ever
The the title of this song strikes me as Bob Dylan-esqe.
"Everyone wants to live forever thinking that it'd be a lot better" is pretty straight-forward. No one wants to die, and we'd all think it'd be better if we never did. Coyne also suggests that maybe we do live forever, and implies reincarnation (if I've lived a thousand times before) which is a typical acid-head ponder. He also says, however, that though he, like everyone else, fears death, he would fear living forever even more (as living forever is the recurring theme of the song). In other words, wouldn't you rather die after leading a single satisfying life rather than living through countless disasters and deaths? I know I would.
If I'd lived a thousand times before And if I'm going to live anymore
im pretty sure its and if i'm going to live a million more doesnt that make more sense?