if we were vampires

Lyrics

it's not the long flowing dress that you're in, or the light coming off of your skin, the fragile heart you protected for so long, or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong, it's not your hands, searching slow in the dark, or your nails leaving love's watermark, it's not the way you talk me off the roof, your questions like directions to the truth, it's knowing that this can't go on forever, likely one of us will have to spend some days alone, maybe we'll get forty years together, but one day i'll be gone or one day you'll be gone, if we were vampires and death was a joke, we'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke, and laugh at all the lovers and their plans, i wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand, maybe time running out is a gift, i'll work hard 'til the end of my shift, and give you every second i can find, and hope it isn't me who's left behind, it's knowing that this can't go on forever, likely one of us will have to spend some days alone, maybe we'll get forty years together, but one day i'll be gone or one day you'll be gone, it's knowing that this can't go on forever, likely one of us will have to spend some days alone, maybe we'll get forty years together, but one day i'll be gone or one day you'll be gone