Living Things Don’t Last

I'm on the fourth floor looking down on you
I’m at the window asking what to do
Thread of an overcoat caught apart a nail [...?]
I felt it unravel

Tear it all apart
Cause living things don't last
Leave them at the start
The future walks right past
Living things don't last

I’m on the fourth floor looking down on you
I'm at the window asking what to do
There is a reason and I must sit in the fray [...?]
Cause the time that got away

Tear it all apart
Cause living things don't last
Do you remember when
The future walks right past
Leave them at the start
Cause living things don't last
Do you remember when
The future walks right past
Living things don't last

When the curtain starts to fall
And the hands of time go on
(Living things don't last)
And the dawn is not in it [...?]
(Living things don't last)
With an hourglass half full
Just say you've got to go
Do you remember when the future of my past
We had it all again
Living things don’t last
Oh oh oh
If you need to go