Okkervil River - Stay Young lyrics

Young, stay young
Stay strong, don't get on with it
Gone, way gone
One day it’s all gone and you’re all done

All my friends are running to live on corners
The hurters and the haters and
The faders and the mourners
The world goes to it's work
And it is not gentle
In what it breaks you down into
All my friends are looking at 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 drugs
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 that he wasn’t willing
Well no shit, I know you miss him, girl
And out past the edges off the earth
You're make it wider
When I see you're 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
'Cause you’ve only got one

Young, stay young
Don't get tough, don't get on with it
On, stay on it’s heartbreaking, step with it
Stay young