How It Feels to Be Alive

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 use my love like an open vein

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 breathe 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 found

And I lay in the rain by the church

And they lured 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 here's 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 breathe 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

On the outside waiting in the cold

Again

Yeah that's how it feels to be alive

Standing on my own again

And that's how it feels to be alive