The Absolute Best Feeling Lyrics

You only get to realize that you're alive once

And it's the absolute best feeling you can feel

Everything is colourful, it's vivid now, it's wonderful

And all because I know it isn't real

You only realize that someday you will die once

And every day thereafter is a gift

Some day your bones turn back to oil

How soon our souls will turn to soul

It's a miracle that we get to exist

I'll learn the names of all the termites that eat my wooden teeth

And I'll shake the tiny hands of all the worms that squirm beneath

And when I look down past the bug bites at my decomposing feet

Turning back into the earth from which I've grown

Oh she'll whisper to me "darling, welcome home"

You only realize that someday you will die once

And your memories will wash off with the rain

All your history, and all you feel, and all you see, it's only real

In the organic matter of your brain

You only get to realize that you're alive once

And then somehow that day feels like the first

First you grow and then decay

the breeze will blow your bones away

Don't wait til then to realize what they're worth

I'll befriend the fuzzy fungus blooming from my jacket pocket

And I'll smile at the maggots squirming 'round in my eye sockets

They're my brothers and sisters, taught me there's no way to stop it

The expanding sun approaches til we're burned

And she'll whisper "tell me, darling, everything you've learned"

You only get to realize that you're alive once

And it's the absolute best feeling you can feel

Such silly thoughts keep us awake

The important things are not at stake

I don't lose sleep 'cause I know I'm not real

So I say let the angry bugs in my intestines wage their wars

And I'll watch the hungry beetles pick the scabs and peels the scars

And when I look back at this planet from the void between the stars

In the arms of some celestial source of time

She'll show me everything was bound to turn out fine