Chasing the sun lyrics

It’s a really old city split between the dead and the living

So I thought to myself sitting on a graveyard shelf

As the echo of heartbeats from the ground below my feet

Filled a cemetery in the center of Queens

I started running the maze of the names and the dates

Some older than others, the skyscrapers’ little tombstone brothers

With Manhattan behind her 3 million stunning reminders

Built a cemetery in the center of Queens

You said remember that life is not meant to be wasted

We can always be chasing the sun

So fill up your lungs and just run

We’ll always be chasing the sun

So how do you do it with just words and just music

Capture the feeling that my earth is somebody’s ceiling

Can I deliver in sound, the weight of the ground

Of a cemetery in the center of Queens

There’s a history through her sent to us as a gift from the future

To show us the proof, more than that it’s to dare us to move

And to open our eyes and to learn from the sky

From a cemetery in the center of Queens

You said remember that life is not meant to be wasted

We can always be chasing the sun

So fill up your lungs and just run

We’ll always be chasing the sun

All we can do is try

And live like we’re still alive

It’s a really old city split between the dead and the living

So I thought to myself sitting on a graveyard shelf

And the gift of my heartbeat sounds like a symphony

Played by a cemetery in the center of Queens

You said remember that life is not meant to be wasted

We can always be chasing the sun

So fill up your lungs and just run

We will always be chasing the sun

All we can do is try

And live like we’re still alive

• Artist:Sara Bareilles