Burning down Neverland, scatter the ashes
White lines, black tar, the matches
Is this another dead by misadventure?
Tell me what you got, what you really got, hey, hey

We'll rest in our graves
Lexington, course your veins
Sleepers can't just wake the dead
When needles and lovers collapse on guilty beds

Fall asleep
Don't fall asleep
Don't fall asleep

They lied when they said that the good die young
They lied when they said the good die young, whoa, oh, oh, oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

Burning down bridges now, scatter the ashes
Godspeed to all you're after
Is this a life left just to remember?
Tell them who you were, who you really were, hey, hey

Kill yourself slowly over time
Fashion statement suicide
She's still asleep in the Chelsea hotel
Bad turns to worse and the worse turns into hell

Fall asleep
Don't fall asleep
Don't fall asleep

God saved the eyes that are dim tonight
They lied when they said the good die young, whoa, oh, oh, oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight

Whoa, oh, oh, oh

They lied when they said the good die young, whoa, oh, oh, oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight
They lied when they said the good die young, whoa, oh, oh, oh
They lied when they said the good die young
Stay with me, stay with me tonight


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Godspeed Lyrics as written by Joseph Milligan (16580) Deon Rexroat (16581)

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    alright well this is an ahmazing song and i could be soo wrong, but what i got out of this is

    that the person is depressed, like in a way with "drugs and needles" and sex and cutting and anorexia [ect] and just trying to want to fit in, but they are slowing killing themselves over time. "they lied when they said the good die young woahh ohh stay with me stay with me tonight" meaning either one of two things in my eyes [1] these people are young, so he doesnt want them to die, they good therefor dont die you in a sense that just trying to keep them to stay alive i guess, if that makes sense to anyone. [2] they are terrible people, the good dont die young, the bad die young cuz they are slowing killing themselves over time, and that they realy don need to die and he wants them to live, they is refering to whoever the song is about, maybe a girl perhaps? not sure, anywayss. , again if anybody understand my crazy lodgic but thats what i think about when i hear it..

    untoldstoriesx3on September 02, 2008   Link

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