[Verse 1]
Obliterated by the times [?] release
Count your pennies on the beach
Broken by beliefs
The lost souls in the bar room [?]
[?] poet hunch
Faded hippies on the stamp
His soul is out to lunch
[Verse 2]
None of this forever keeps us all afraid
It keeps my finger on my pulse
It keeps my bills all paid
Keeps me running on the spot
Keeps me looking at the clock
You're a miracle morning light
After the pirate ship [?]
We are holding on for life
Because heaven
Heaven is a lie
Morning's movies, scratchy eyes
I'm f**ed by Friday night
Stupid songs [?]
So desperate to fight
To beat it out the [?] child
Flower in the fire
The sad night glows with tippy toes
With all of those sweet lies
Gathered in the downstairs bar
We'll make some [?]
The history of tapes and times
And a million cute confessions
From Beverly road to Junction road
I'm on the stage tonight
The guitar breaks
We make mistakes
We are freeze-framed in our own dumb light
We are holding on for life
Because heaven
Heaven is a lie
We fall in love with what we were
We plan to go back there
We still keep those shirts and visions
The way we wore our [?]
These nights they are our treasures
Kept [?] near
I'll stand outside and watch the [?] formation of a ruin
Every sad song locked inside
Too scared to get going
We're holding onto life
"Cause [?] heaven is a lie
[Verse 3]
Long after tonight's candles are blown
And all the sweethearts have gone home
Before the morning kettle sings
Before our wrinkles have set in
Before that light beckons us home
Before the final film is shown
Before that last drunk song is sung
I'll hold on to your hand
I'll hold on to everyone
And all we believe in
And I'm holding on to life
'Cause heaven
Heaven is a lie
We're holding onto life
'Cause heaven
Heaven is a lie