love is watching someone die

i wish we wouldn't take all these seconds and minutes for granted, fighting, staying angry, waiting, waiting, and waiting, for what?

sometimes i feel like that little girl, trying to catch those bubbles. but they always burst, they never last, just like these minutes, just like these seconds. i catch them in vain, their remains an explosion of soap and water, memories, pain and joy, in my hands, while you just watch them float away, watch me run to catch the next one, and the next, and the next. i don't know why i do it, i just have to, and wonder why these bubbles burst so fast and violently.

so, who's going to watch you die?

And it came to me then
That every plan is a tiny prayer to Father Time
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU
That reeked of piss and 409
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself
That I'd already taken too much today
As each descending peak on the LCD
Took you a little farther away from me
Away from me

Amongst the vending machines and year-old magazines
In a place where we only say goodbye
It stung like a violent wind that our memories depend
On a faulty camera in our minds
But I knew that you were a truth
I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all
And I looked around at all the eyes on the ground
As the TV entertained itself

'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room
Just nervous paces bracing for bad news
Then the nurse comes around and everyone lifts their head
But I'm thinking of what Sarah said
That love is watching someone die

So who's going to watch you die
So who's going to watch you die
So who's going to watch you die 

"What Sarah Said"

by

Death Cab for Cutie