Everything Takes Forever

Steve Kilbey / Grant McLennan
(Yeblik Songs/Complete Music)

Appears On:

• Jack Frost - Jack Frost (1991), Track 13
• Jack Frost - As Seen On TV (2025)
  • LP: Side C, Track 3 / CD: Disc 1, Track 13 - Album Version
  • CD: Disc 3, Track 10 - Live at the 9:30 Club, Washington DC, 23 March 1991

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Lyrics (unofficial)

[rev. Aug. 27, 2015]

As you stumble into the future
Remorselessly moving out of the past
And you separate the reflex moments of living
You drag down the morning into your room

You can sing with your partner
You can sing by yourself
You can sing everything takes forever

You can sing with the vampires
You can sing with the beast
You can sing that everything takes forever

As you sit at the table you make small decisions
You lie in your bed and you laugh in the dark
You ask yourself a hundred dumb questions
And you answer yourself with a hundred dumb lies

You can sing with your partner
You can sing by yourself
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing with the vampires
You can sing with the beast
You can sing that everything takes forever

And then tomorrow wake up with the stranger
You drag down the morning into your room

You can sing with your partner
You can sing by yourself
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing with the vampires
You can sing with the beast
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing in the twilight
You can sing in the morning
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing in the orchards
You can sing by the streams
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing under stars
You can sing in the graveyard
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing in your sunglasses
You can sing by the moon
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing with accordions
You can sing with violins
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing with the knifethrowers
You can sing with the freaks
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing in the avenues
You can sing under starlight
You can sing that everything takes forever

You can sing with the last ones
You can sing with the children
You can sing...