Mortals

You laugh beside me, you needed this coffee Your legs are too long for my passenger seat And your brother's a dropout, you've thought about Givin' up on science in pursuit of higher thinking And my heart gets ahead of me always, always You're talkin' in verses to me always, always And you'll never live up to myths that I made of you My bones and veins had to learn to be brave You would lie with Goliath to have it both ways And all of my friends thought that you'd stick around You sounded so great But you're just a boy with a biblical name And my heart gets ahead of me always, always I'd give you the benefit always, always And you'll never live up to myths that I made of you Nothing's forever I've gotta live with that, too