Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit on Austin City Limits "If We Were Vampires"

(audience clapping) ("If We were Vampires" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit) (audience cheering) ♪ It's not the long flowing dress that you're in ♪ ♪ Or the light coming off of your skin ♪ ♪ The fragile heart you've protected for so long ♪ ♪ Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong ♪ ♪ It's not your hands searching slow in the dark ♪ ♪ Or your nails leaving love's watermark ♪ ♪ It's not the way you talk me off the roof ♪ ♪ Your questions like directions to the truth ♪ ♪ It's knowing that this can't go on forever ♪ ♪ Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone ♪ ♪ Maybe we'll get 40 years together ♪ ♪ But one day I'll be gone ♪ ♪ Or one day you'll be gone ♪ ♪ If we were vampires and death was a joke ♪ ♪ We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke ♪ ♪ Laugh at all the lovers and their plans ♪ ♪ I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand ♪ ♪ Maybe time running out is a gift ♪ ♪ I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift ♪ ♪ And give you every second I can find ♪ ♪ And hope it isn't me who's left behind ♪ ♪ Knowing that this can't go on forever ♪ ♪ Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone ♪ ♪ Maybe we'll get 40 years together ♪ ♪ But one day I'll be gone ♪ ♪ Or one day you'll be gone ♪ (haunting, emotional instrumental) ♪ Knowing that this can't go on forever ♪ ♪ Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone ♪ ♪ Maybe we'll get 40 years together ♪ ♪ But one day I'll be gone ♪ ♪ Or one day you'll be gone ♪ (audience cheering and applauding)

Channel: AustinCityLimitsTV

Views: 268,901

Rating: 4.938343 out of 5

Keywords: Austin City Limits, Austin, ACL, KLRU, PBS, jason isbell

Id: JV7c8V5XLk8

Length: 3min 58sec (238 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 12 2018

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