"Howlers" lyrics

Oh, the howlers were howling, and I couldn't stop frowning
Then laughing like someone who knows more than they're allowed to
And I know a thing or a few things, it's true
How the fear can slice through you like cold avenues

And if I ever die, and I know that I will
It's the songs to be sung, keeps my heart beating still
But much faster than I know is good for me, kills me
So what is a life, but to live and be loved through?

And it's not hard to imagine the soul as a tangential
Rampaging, chaotic, ambulant animal
Scratching and howling its way 'cross the floor
I'm a man who need less of the things I want more of

And if I ever die, and I know that I will
It's the songs to be sung, keeps my heart beating still
And much faster than I know is good for me, kills me
So what is a life, but to live and be loved through?

And since I was just stardust aloft in the universe
Yearning and leaving and limping my way through the
Cutting of corners that came back to haunt me, too
Close to the bones that I'll leave when I go back to
Circling suns like a soul-riddled particle
Split into something much greater than I ever was
On my lonesome, so I long for everyone
Everything, anyone, tell me, I mean something

Oh, what is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?
What is a life but to live and be loved through?