too young to die (feat. First Aid Kit)

Remember running with a homemade transistor into the nowhere of the night

Picking up transmissions in a code from a host of foreign satellites

It said, "Teach a kid guitar, he'll be broke for the rest of his life

But too young to die"

I first heard that from an old guy

"I'm too young to die"

Spray-painted on the half-pipe

Too young to die

And sailing, sometimes failing, that's the only way, the only way to fly

Crying, sometimes wailin', that's the only way that we learn how to try

With my face down in the mat, the champ says "Are you too old to fight?

Or too young to die?"

First heard that from an old guy

"I'm too young to die"

Cacti blooming up the hillside

Too young to die

So if you're feeling like king kong at the end of his do-or-die

And hearing voices of a girl against the engines of a kamikaze fight

As he held her to his chest do you remember the words that she cried?

She said, "You're too young to die

And too young to die am I"

Too young to die

And too young to die am I"

Too young to die