The Living Young

from Home Demo Tapes by Absent Tiger

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Recorded and Mixed by Marco Mendoza at The Butcher Room Studio, Seattle WA. www.thebutcherroom.com / Mastered by RFI

Band: ABSENT TIGER
Song: THE LIVING YOUNG
Album: GHOST OF FRIENDS WE USED TO KNOW (Coming Autumn '14)
Length: 3:05 (RADIO FRIENDLY VERSION)
Sounds Like: SUMMERTIME + BOWIE + THE NATIONAL

lyrics

We were living fast and we were living young
Was it tears or sweat upon our tongues
All the ways we wait and all the ways we wait

In the Brooklyn basements and washed out bars
We crossed this city like drunken stars
And all the things that are too mean to say

It would be easier if we just didn't give a damn

Come on Julie don't you fret
Got ourselves plenty left to regret
So just dry your eyes/mind your lies/ it's just
Another dragged out, drugged up suicide

Like snowflakes settling on the sea
We evaporate so casually
So does it matter if we're scared?

Unpenned plays and unpainted art
Even faintly did you leave your mark?
Who said it was gonna be fair

We do not have to live
Like you were just born to die
Maybe every little things gonna be alright this time
Every little things gonna be alright this time
Keep on carrying on

In the morning, will we carry you
like a lantern in our arms?
Were we buried in July?
Summerwine and calm like moths who can't even care to find the light?
Come one we've got to carry on

credits

from Home Demo Tapes, track released July 10, 2014
Grant- Vocals, Synths, Guitar
Mercedes- Drums, Vocals

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