Stay Young - Okkervil River

Young stay young

Stay strong and get on with it;

Gone way gone one day it's all gone

And you're all done

All my friends are running to their own corners

The hurters and the haters

And the faders and the mourners

The world goes to its work and it is not gentle

In what it breaks you down into

All my friends are looking in life

And it's a long long long long lonely time

I said that when you met me I was just dying

I said it to no one I said it in silence

Young stay young Face dawn all talk and quick

Stunned stay stunned mind blown

And your jaw drops

And all these hateful people judging and hand-wringing

Oh lord why don't you bury me in all they call sinning

Open up your heart

Show me the place where love is missing

How long have you been missing love

I see all creation pulsing and divided up between it

Now you have to lay me down because my head is spinning

Try try hard to drop fear and to drop your guard

Off off of love off ***** Just feel it in your blood

And I call to all my friends:

All the cracked-cassette-tape-thrillers

All the hand-inside-the-tillers

And the hundred-dollar-billers

Standing by the stone that was rejected by the builders

There was drinking at the bar

They carried from the burning building

Never let it be said daddy wasn't willing

Well I know you miss him

Girl I've lost the edges off the earth

You make it wider When I see your crying

Don't you know it's killing me

Now climb climb up

Way up to see the sun One

One draw One life

One love You've only got one

And young stay young girl Get tough

Get on with it Young stay young

It's a heartbreak; step with it; stay young