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MLA Full: "Being Alive." YouTube, uploaded by vlogbrothers, 8 October 2025, www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_gCvlQDO1E.
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_gCvlQDO1E.
I am nervous about this!!! It's been so long and the world is different and honestly I always made music a little bit focused more on being funny and interesting than being something I was artistically proud of but this is in a different direction. Hope you like!











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[G]Drove home from the Richman show, he [Am]played “That Summer [D]Feeling,”





and [G]I felt it a little, but that [Am]feeling kept re[D]treating.





My [Am]head by the P[D]A, I heard my [G]heart [Am]beat [C]weird,





you [Am]felt so real be[D]side me, I [G]didn’t [Am]feel as [C]real.











Flat [G]earthers argue whether other [Am]planets are [D]flat,





Doctors [G]say not to worry but I’m still [Am]scared of [D]math





A [Am]thousand little [D]gods down there all [G]whis[Am]per my [C]worth,





So I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.











I don’t [C]honk at a [D]truck on a saturday night [G]night,





Even though it’s stopped in front of me at the green light





I won’t honk at a truck stopped at a green light,





’cause I like... being alive.











There’s [G]teeth in the stack where the [Am]power lines [D]end,





they [G]sell you the itch and they [Am]rent you the [D]win.





A [Am]king bought the [D]kingdom of [G]sig[Am]nal and [C]sin,





and the [Am]stans paint their [D]mirrors with [G]pictures[Am] of [C]him.











The [G]hit gets quicker, the [Am]loop gets [D]worse,





I [G]scrolled until the ghost in the [Am]glass learns [D]words.





And my [Am]fingers tap tap [D]tap tap [G]tap tap[Am], [C]





in [Am]case of emer[D]gency...[G] [Am] break [C]glass.





But still I don’t honk...











The moon looks [C]fake, but it’s hanging [D]there,





Frozen [G]sky tastes like wine in the [Am]cold -night [C]air.





The lines hum and my heart keeps time,





It [G]smells awful sweet for a [Am]world on [C]fire





’Cause the kid’s asleep and the lights still work,





And I [C]talk to the [D]cats like it’s [G]church.

















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