How Long Is Your Life? - Royal Canoe

Hold on, are you talking it up?

What’s with all the fussing with the t-shirt, t-shirt?

Oh no, you just don’t want it enough

Oh no, you be covering up

Standing all tall like you knowwhat you don’t know

So afraid of the hush—hush

How long’s your life?

You feel it passing by

How long’s your life?

Are you stepping out of time?

Black dog, black dog ripping up the carpet

Goddamn, if you were a man, do you think you’d have a

home yet?

And even when their eyes pull your mouth shut

You’re huffin' and a-puffin'

Are you half-cut?

Laying like a old rug

Hold up, are you getting it right?

What you gonna do until you see her, see her?

Done up like you’re having a night

Oh no, did you get used to the light?

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How’s it going to look when you go where you don’t go I

Getting lost in the night, night

How long’s your life?

You feel it passing by

How long’s your life?

Are you stepping out of time?

All the day the sun is rising somewhere in the sky

Sing me a true song

That grows from inside you

You can carry it, but for how long?

Before you lose the naked sound

There’s a greyhound pulling away

And you’re silhouetting on the curb

Everything’s missing from what you would say, but the words

(There they go)