Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) Lyrics

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Cover art for Talkin' 'Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever) lyrics by Flaming Lips, The

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"