Lovely Bones (Live Forever Suite)

Featured art by Cam Rackam

Listen to Lovely Bones by Richard Charles Stevens (Live Forever Suite)

Listen to Live Forever by Oasis

take flight and stay alive forever
take flight and stay alive forever
.
naked to the bones
my skin disowned
i stand here weightless
having walked the road less travelled by
no longer quite so faithless
know well my mortal failings
of the liberty prevailing
while not getting any younger
life has not derailed my hunger
with a wealth of wide eyed wonder
i am ageless
naked to the bones
my skin disowned
i stand here weightless
with a wealth of wide eyed wonder
i am ageless
naked to the bones
my skin disowned
i stand here weightless
.
maybe i just wanna fly
gonna live for too long to die
maybe i am gonna breathe
maybe i can taste belief
maybe you’re the same as me
we see these forever scenes
you and i are gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
.
i was shapeless on commencement
wracked with guilt and apprehension
felt i fell some way from warranting a mention
my existence was uncertain
this appeared the final curtain
and recovery beyond my comprehension
had the other me persisted
then i would have been black listed
there was light though it was distant
had i blinked i would have missed it
kissed goodbye the childhood dreams
deemed as surplus to the theme
for they seemed to serve no purpose in my ominous predicament
the walls were closing in
felt exposed
guilty as sin
even though i knew i was entirely innocent
sure i made a few mistakes
yet would far sooner give than take
therefore my moral claim appeared legitimate
(stay alive forever)
.
maybe i just wanna fly
gonna live for too long to die
maybe i am gonna breathe
maybe i can taste belief
maybe you’re the same as me
we see these forever scenes
you and i are gonna live forever
.
i was honest to a fault
had that great honour in my favour
would partake in leaps of faith in kind
decline to sign disclaimer
my behaviour may have been a touch erratic at the time
although it sure beat staying static while i wait around to die
.
on the borderline of tragic and emphatic in decline
every silence was dramatic
mindless violence fractured sight
inclined towards a bright side i felt callously denied
in the baptistry of fire
i learned the burn of great desire
and thus my sacrifice was actually well timed
.
naked to the bones
my skin disowned
i stood there weightless
having walked the road less travelled by
no longer frail or faithless
knew well my mortal failings
of the liberty prevailing
while not getting any younger
life intensified my hunger
with a wealth of wide eyed wonder
i felt ageless
for the first time in my life
the skies were changeless
naked to the bones
my skin disowned
i stood there weightless
for the first time in my life
the skies were changeless
(stay alive forever)
.
maybe i just wanna fly
gonna live for too long to die
maybe i am gonna breathe
maybe i can taste belief
maybe you’re the same as me
we see these forever scenes
you and i are gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
.
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
.
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
gonna live forever
(take flight and stay alive forever)
.
given how i still remain
and this is now
then yesterday
i’d say i’ll say the same tomorrow
that i’ll say today again
each naked flame we burn
we learn
each straight line that we swerve
we curve
each nerve struck
with pluck and verve
deserves returns and thus confirms
the feelings we conceal revealed can shield us from the wieldless steel that splinters
and in bitter winters
quilt us
.
the heart still grows
the heart still grows
the heart still grows
the heart still
heart still grows
.