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Trying to Feel Alive Lyrics

Cover art for『Porter Robinson - Trying to Feel Alive』from the release『Nurture』

Artist:	Porter Robinson
Release:	2021.04.23
Lyricist:	Porter Robinson
Composer:	Porter Robinson
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Lyrics

well, do you feel better now?
i thought i’d run until the sky came out
and with the sunlight on my face,
something changed

and just trying to feel alive,
you climbed a mountain —
are you satisfied?
as you stand at the top,
you already want to do this one more time

maybe it’s a gift that i couldn’t recognize
maybe i don’t really need to feel satisfied
maybe it’s a gift that i spend all this time
just trying to feel alive

maybe i don’t really wanna be satisfied
maybe it’s a gift that i couldn’t recognize
maybe this all –
maybe this was all …

and then somebody, somewhere finds the warmth of summer in the songs you write
maybe it’s a gift that i couldn’t recognize:
trying to feel alive

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Porter Robinson - Trying to Feel Alive Lyrics

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「Porter Robinson」Comment

This song was me trying to make sense of the whole journey, trying to figure out what has changed. What did I learn? Am I any better? Am I satisfied? It was enormously difficult to write, but ultimately, the answer I came to is that satisfaction isn’t the real goal. If you accomplish everything you’re striving for, you’ll stop looking forward. There’s nowhere to go. This is another one where I was crying while writing it because I guess it was sort of a personal epiphany. Here I am on the other side of this, still struggling with making music, still not necessarily feeling whole, but beginning to understand that maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe that’s the point. Maybe making music is my way of trying to feel alive, over and over again.