How Long Is Your Life

Hold on, are you talking it up?
 What's with all the fussing with the t-shirt, t-shirt?
 Oh no, you just don't want it enough
 Oh no, you be covering up
 Standing all tall like you knowwhat you don't know
 So afraid of the hush—hush
 How long's your life?
 You feel it passing by
 How long's your life?
 Are you stepping out of time?
 Black dog, black dog ripping up the carpet
 Goddamn, if you were a man, do you think you'd have a
 home yet?
 And even when their eyes pull your mouth shut
 You're huffin' and a-puffin'
 Are you half-cut?
 Laying like a old rug
 Hold up, are you getting it right?
 What you gonna do until you see her, see her?
 Done up like you're having a night
 Oh no, did you get used to the light? j
 How's it going to look when you go where you don't go I
 Getting lost in the night, night
 How long's your life?
 You feel it passing by
 How long's your life?
 Are you stepping out of time?
 All the day the sun is rising somewhere in the sky
 Sing me a true song
 That grows from inside you
 You can carry it, but for how long?
 Before you lose the naked sound
 There's a greyhound pulling away
 And you're silhouetting on the curb
 Everything's missing from what you would say, but the words
 (There they go)