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,

Three 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'll always be chasing the sun.

All we can do is try

And live like we're still alive.

All we can do is try

And live like we're still alive.