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Live Forever

from Songs for Grownups by Jay Ackley

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Featuring Kristen Tivey on Saxophone

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I met an old man in a bar once, he wasn’t what he appeared,
He said come over kid I got something to tell you, and bring a couple of beers
You know I fought in the war once, yeah the terrible one
There were so many times that I should have died, I couldn’t believe that I’d survived
You know they got me in front of a firing squad, and what do you know every barrel clogged
And I thought…
I’m gonna live forever, eternal life is mine
No force on earth can kill me I’ll withstand the test of time.

If you accept the many-worlds hypothesis,
and that everything that could possibly happen somewhere truly does
but as consciousness we can only exist in those worlds where we don’t cease to live
then however improbable, infinite survival is inevitable
it’s like schroedinger’s cat, but you’re in the box
I said you’re drunk, he said so what, then he said it again he said
I’m gonna live forever, I’m gonna watch the last sun set
I’m gonna take for granted things that you can’t fathom yet.

And you might not believe me, but you just wait and see,
There’s a not-so-subtle downside to de facto immortality
Because it’s up to you to develop the mental fortitude to make it through the aeons of eternity
Without your friends or family and in some far-off century I know some day you’ll think of me –
Then abruptly, and to my alarm, he died right there in my arms.

And in that moment I realized:
I’m gonna live forever, me and all my friends,
My soul will flow perpetual, I’m gonna watch the universe end.

I’m gonna live forever, it’s gonna be a horrible ordeal
I’ll face unending nothing on time’s unforgiving wheel.

I’m gonna live forever, and I think that you might too
Better try and keep your on straight, keep your socks inside your shoes.

I’m gonna live forever, I’m gonna live forever, I’m gonna live forever,
I’m gonna live forever.

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from Songs for Grownups, released April 29, 2019

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Jay Ackley Brooklyn, New York

Minnesotan in Brooklyn by way of London; having a sing-song through the dystopia.

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