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Real Death (Live)
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Alternative
Real Death (Live) was released on September 28, 2018 by P.W. Elverum & Sun as a part of the album After (Live)
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Release DateSeptember 28, 2018
LabelP.W. Elverum & Sun
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM74

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Mount Eerie
Mount Eerie
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Phil Elverum
Phil Elverum
Composer, Lyrics, Songwriter

Lyrics

Death is real
Someone's there and then they're not
And it's not for singing about
It's not for making into art
When real death enters the house, all poetry is dumb
When I walk into the room where you were
And look into the emptiness instead
All fails
My knees fail
My brain fails
Words fail
Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you
must have known deep down would not include you
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that is bottomless and real
It's dumb
And I don't want to learn anything from this
I love you
Written by: Phil Elverum
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