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How It Feels To Be Alive

How It Feels To Be Alive lyrics by James Blunt. When my heart doesn’t beat anymore And my body’s cold You will walk, dressed in black, to my door And the...

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How It Feels To Be Alive

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When my heart doesn’t beat anymore

And my body’s cold

You will walk, dressed in black, to my door

And the bells will toll

You used my love like an open vein

And just when I thought it would heal

Back you came

Seeing you again for the first time

Trying to look ahead and not behind

Raging as you do against the tide

Knowing that you're his instead of mine

Getting used to being hurt again

Every day is closer to the end

Holding back the tears I need to cry

Waiting to breath for the last time

Yeah, that’s how it feels to be alive

That’s how it feels to be alive

At my grave, they did say one last verse

About the new love that you've found

And I lay in the rain by the church

And they lowered me into the ground

You stole my heart as your souvenir

Thought that you would never come back

But now you’re here

Seeing you again for the first time

Trying to look ahead and not behind

Raging as you do against the tide

Knowing that you're his instead of mine

Getting used to being hurt again

Every day is closer to the end

Holding back the tears I need to cry

Waiting to breath for the last time

Yeah, that’s how it feels to be alive

Yeah, that’s how it feels to be alive

Yeah, that’s how it feels to be alive

(Outside waiting in the cold again)

(I'm outside waiting to be held again)

Yeah, that’s how it feels to be alive

(Outside standing on my own again)

That’s how it feels to be alive

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