Avett Brothers - The Avett Brothers Album Lyrics

Life cannot be written
It only can be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart


Love is what they gave me
And love is what I give you
It's in the smallest movement
It fills the starless void
Our fingertips were touching
Though light-years passed between us
No enеrgy created
No enеrgy destroyed


Life cannot be written
It can only be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart


The work is set before us
The path is clear and cold
The new year is only six days old
I didn't want to leave all my discoveries behind
But another me left long ago
And I know he's doing fine

Life cannot be written
It only can be lived
An endless sea of vision
For each is born within
And death is not an issue
It cannot break my heart
And I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart
No, I don't have to miss you
We'll never be apart

I got regret, soul debt
Gotta get one hit
Sunlit, unfit
Still owe my alma mater
Nightmare, slow throwin'
Haymakers underwater
Gotta get my hair right
Love you, goodnight
Gotta get cleaned up
Pressed up, dressed up
Sun down comes around
Find me with my head down
Toes turned in with my hands in my pockets
Like a present day
Hesitatin' Huckleberry Finn

So I sneak out, peace out
Peek out the curtains
Of a blacked out bedroom
Passed out cartoon
Version of a person
With a whole hеrd of sheep
Just floatin' in a circle
With some capital Z's


Nevеr find me
Waiting kindly
For someone
To come remind me
Why I struggle so
Well it's all for the love of a girl


I got one older brother
He's a fighter and a lover
And every other day
He seems to rediscover
What the underlying meaning
Of the dreaming and the scheming is
History colliding with the soul and the showbiz
Don't save much
For a touchdown celebration
Runnin' out the tunnel
On a hundred foot elevation
Racin' through the scene
Like a drop of gasoline
Through a 427 in a Ford Galaxy

Never find me (him)
Waiting patient
For someone
To come explain it
Why I (he) suffers so
Well it's all for the love of a girl

It's a hard up, hard luck
Planet that we're livin' on
Heartache partaken
Of the blue ribbon
On most of the trails
That we didn't put rails on
Showing at the funeral home with bells on
Gotta get woken up
Opened up all the way
Lawyer on the phone saying
Hey I just called to say
Still two or three bills in the mail on the way
Hope ya doin' all right
Hope ya had a great day
Well as a matter of fact
I ain't really doin' half bad
I was out running errands
From early 'til half past four
And I got a good deal on flowers at the grocery store

Never find me
Waiting kindly
For someone
To come remind me
Why I struggle so
Why I struggle so
Well it's all for the love of a girl

Cheap coffee brewing in the kitchen
From the babies room you were calling me
First steps I missed made up by the second ones
In a 3 room apartment all of 800 square feet

Didn't know how
Didn't know how good it was
Didn't know how
Didn't know how good it was

Moonlight on your breast
Broken by the black straps of your dress
Broken by my grip
First love I missed made up by the last one
Makes me smile as the last of my memory slips
Into the past

Didn't know how
Didn't know how it could go so fast
Didn't know how
Didn't know how it could go so fast

When I think about the two of us
And what could happen just because
Something can break
It don't mean that it will
What were we waiting for
All we dreamt and so much more
It was ours, but it's ours still

Little hands building things
Climbing mountains, tracing stars, chasing dreams
First light I missed made up by the afterglow
I can still feel the warmth of your love light shining on me

Didn't know how
Didn't know how it good it could be
Didn't know how
Didn't know how it good it could be

Didn't know how
Didn't know how it could go so fast
Didn't know how
Didn't know how it could go so fast

[Outro]
Cheap coffee brewing in the kitchen
Cheap coffee brewing
Cheap coffee brewing in the kitchen
Cheap coffee brewing

[CHILD, You're going to have a long life, maybe 'bout 200 and million lives. Is that the most highest number?]
[SCOTT, Well the highest number is infinity]
[CHILD, Infinity?]
[SCOTT, Yep and that's a number that never ends]
[Oh gosh]
[SCOTT, Yeah, very, very, very, very - well it's just, it's not even a very high number, its just - it's a number that never ends.]

How long is now?
We could stay, but we don't know how
Some say forever
Who are these men?
I wanna live
Forever now with them

How far is heaven?
Is it in the air we breathe?
Some say before us
And it's always been
I wanna live
Forever now with them

How long is now?
How gone is yesteryear?
If you've ever been
How can you ever disappear?
I have to sink and rise
And sink and rise again
How far am I away from you?
You've always been
At the heart of Providence
And I want to live forever now within


Sink and rise
Sink and rise
Sink and rise again

I was a country kid through and through
I got my bare feet bit by a wreckin' crew
Of fire ants on a mission
For total domination of the font yard

Three years old on a ramshackle farm
Winnie the Pooh in the crook of my arm
Brother and sister not meaning no harm, pickin' on me

I was a country kid with a strong foundation
Gettin' myself a whole second education in the back of the bus
Kids kissin' and cussin' all around me

One more pickup in the trailer park
Hand to mouth, livin'll break a young heart
Beautiful girl with a hard, hard look in her eyes

Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi

I was a country kid shootin' hoops in the dirt
Hidin' smokes in the pocket of a homemade shirt
Runnin' laps in the yard until my little legs hurt and then goin' again

Six feet of air off a plywood ramp
Dad's welding machine parked where I would land
All I could taste was blood, all I could feel were the rocks
In the palms of my hands

I was a country kid throwin' parties in the woods
Draggin' my friends out of their neighborhoods
Jealous of their cable TV and their girls next door

Slippin' off into the dark of the night
The shape of a body traced by moonlight
Interrupted by some other kid wantin' to fight over her

Then I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi
Flowing fast like the Mississippi, woo

I was a country kid
Now I'm grown, with a job and a wife and a son of my own
Navigatin' time zones, inspectin' the bones of the second half

Talkin' to God a little more often
Less requests and more sayin' thank you
For every single town and every single acre in between

'Cause I grew up and hit the city
But that metropolis'll never get me
I fly above it all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi

Yeah, I grew up and hit the city
But the skyscrapers never get me
I fly above 'em all the time, straight through cloud nine
Flowing fast like the Mississippi

Dead heading east to west
Taking my memories, leaving this place
Earning my heartache, holding it tight
Owning my history outright


Like mine was the best
Everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt

Dead in my tracks, old and tired
Real time really done a number
Toes in the sand at the edge of the sea
Mother of mothers coming for me

Like mine was the best
Everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt

I hear the same words leaving the mouth of my enemy
Troubled the same
I fear the worst; how complicated it can get to be
Trying to land in the same place

Where can I go for a little bit of peace?
Too much racket up in D.C
Whole lot of talking, money changing hands
Little bitty men with big plans

Like theirs was the best
Everybody thinks they know everyone else
Looking for healing under a ceiling
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt
When it's beyond Orion's Belt

I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go


So many moments pass me by
My lover's hope is bound to fade
A night with you is such a precious thing to miss
Here I go again
Pissing it away

But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go

I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you

I let my fear of loss take hold
I will the fate of your heart
I couldn't blame you
If you discovered the things you wanted
Far away from me
And went to where they are
Turned away from me
And went to where they are

But I still love you like I did
Sometimes I fail to let you know
We were holding hands
When the ground beneath us slid
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go
Now we're barreling down the mountain
Don't let go

I spent all that precious time
Somewhere else back then
Even when I wasn't gone
I might as well have been
Lord, I regret plenty
With this twenty-twenty view
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you
But the fault's all mine
'Cause there's never been a time I regretted time with you

Somebody's waiting for me
There's an answer that I have been chasing
Always a change in my hometown to see
I'm running so fast
Who am I racing?

There's always something to do
But it don't fill the holes that it promises to
Now everything starts to move on its own
Carrying me too far away

Somebody's calling my phone
Begging for me to come home
Every town has the same broken bones
And loneliness

Does there have to be silence
To hear the truth?
I don't know that I'll find it
But I may know where to look

I am awakе in the dark
Alone at the kitchеn table
Taking the time to feel time passing by
Perfectly still
Perfectly here
Now everything starts to move
As if by some common magic
Shadows and sparrows and the very sky
Moving my heart
Standing me up

Someone is waiting for me
Somewhere apart from the part I can see
He never visits except in my dreams
Just out of reach
Gone but still close

Whether we speak up
Or we are silent
If we are willing
Or we are done

If we're courageous
Or we are cowards
We may be burdened
But we are loved

Whether we stay true
And do for another
If we are hidden
Or we're discovered

If we're forgiven
Or we're forgotten
Wе may be lonely
But we arе loved

Every stitch and seam
Every wish and dream
Even in tragedy
There lies divinity

Even as hope seems lost
It may be found again
I have felt alone
But I have never been

If you are standing
Or cannot stop moving
Whether you're haunted
Or cannot remember

Over the gravestone
Under the rainbow
Pain comes and pain goes
And we are loved

Every stitch and seam
Every wish and dream
Even in tragedy
There lies divinity

Even as hope seems lost
It may be found again
I have felt alone
But I have never been

If we are spirit
Or we are human
Crossing the river
Or harboring change

If we deny it
Or if we face it
May we embrace it
We are loved