If We Were Vampires Lyrics - Jason Isbell & 400 Unit

It's not 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 hand searching slow in the dark 

Or your nails leaving love's watermark 

Or the way you talked 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 and one day you'll be gone 

If we were vampires and death was a joke 

We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke 

And 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 to the end of my shift 

To give you every second I can find 

And hope it isn't me who's left behind 

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 and one day you'll be gone