Live Out The String

Album: Join the Parade (2007)
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  • Maybe Life is curious to see what you would do
    With the gift of being left alive
    How love how give
    Have spread the higher purpose
    And cut through all the shuck and jive
    Its only natural
    Maybe superstitious
    To try to find the meaning
    Of greed in the eyes
    But sometimes we (get down on your knees)
    But sometimes could ya
    Sometimes yeah
    And thank the whole world your the verse of god
    For letting you
    Live out the string
    A little longer boy
    Raise your voice and
    Make a joyful noise
    And a gaurentee
    But if anything
    Live out the string

    now that a meteorite has fallen in the chair
    You just got up to answer the phone
    Will you live every moment
    Like it just might be your last?
    Or will you still just bitch and moan

    fate is kind
    Fate is creul
    Its termanilly cool
    And its random and eruption
    In your groove
    But sometimes get down on your knees

    sometimes baby
    Sometimes could ya get down on your knees
    And find yourself a deeper groove

    live out the string
    A little longer boy
    Raise your voice
    And make a joyful noise
    Ain't a gauruntee
    But if anything
    Live out the string
    The string

    bridge
    Who knows if we had angels on our shoulders
    That night with the devil in the street
    Who's knows if it means we have more work to do
    But hey baby don't the air taste sweet

    hey baby, don't the air taste sweet

    get down on your knees
    And live out the string
    Live out the string
    Yeah yeah yeah
    Get down on your knees
    Live it out baby

    Maybe life is curious to see what you would do
    With the gift of being left alive
    Writer/s: Marc Cohn, Michael Silverstone
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., MARC COHN MUSIC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Volker from HamburgThe "String" refers to the thread of life from ancient Greek (and Roman) mythology: The three sister deities called the Moirai or Fates determine destiny and life. Clotho spins the thread of life; Lachesis determines how long one lives, by measuring the thread of life; and Atropos choses how someone dies by cutting the thread of life with her shears. So "Live out the string" could stand for the decision to fully exhaust the span of life alloted to you by the Moirai.
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