long way down (2021 version)

(written 2012, this version recorded 2021) In another life I know I could be happy and old In another life I wouldn't have died And you'd know me as someone good In another life I swear I'd make it In another life I swear I'd shine Holding conversations with the best of them I swear in another life I'd fly It's a long way down and no one saves you now You're tired and cold and ready to go It's a long way down and no one saves you now Take another hit and pass it around We're taking the long way going nowhere now, yeah In my head I have these dreams Where I'm dead or so it seems I'm going down Maybe in another life I could be the stars lighting up the sky I won't come down This is where I should be You'd all be saying this girl is everything