A World With No Aging

They

told us we’d

live forever…

Nobody told us what forever meant.

Twenty years and I still look the same

Thirty years, nothing ever changed

My mother’s wearing the same smile

Like she did when I was a child

Nobody counts birthdays anymore

Candles don’t mean what they did before

We don’t say goodbye at hospital beds

We don’t bury anybody when they’re dead

No little footsteps in the hallway

No first cry coming through the door

We stopped asking where we’re going

‘Cause we’ve already been here before

We won the war against the clock

We made our bodies stay alive

But somewhere in the victory We forgot what makes a moment matter

FOREVER FOREEEEVER

Nothing ever has to end FOREVER FOREEEEVER

Everybody stays forever young

No goodbye No last kiss

No final night we’ll ever miss

FOREVER FOREEEEVER

Tell me…

What are we living for?

There’s a thousand empty cradles

In a museum downtown

They tell us how we used to make new people

Before we figured immortality out

Every generation stayed behind us Until there were no generations left

Now the oldest person in the city

Is the same age as everybody else

We have photographs from centuries ago And the faces haven’t changed A

thousand years inside one lifetime And we’re still afraid Afraid of boredom

Afraid of silence

Afraid tomorrow

will look just like today

We won the war against the clock

We made our bodies stay alive

But somewhere in the victory We forgot what makes a moment matter

I used to dream about tomorrow…

Now tomorrow feels like yesterday.

I used to be afraid of dying…

Now I’m afraid I’ll never get away.

Maybe an ending…

Was the reason

anything mattered.

FOREVER

FOREEEEVER Nothing ever has to end

FOREVER FOREEEEVER But I don’t know who I am anymore No goodbye

No last kiss No final moment we

could miss

FOREVER

FOREEEEVER We got everything we wanted…

And nothing left to wait for.

They gave us forever…

I think I miss goodbye.

(I miss goodbye)