How Long Is Your Life?

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? j
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)