[Verse 1]
Why am I alive now?
I don't want to be witness
Seeing all of this duress
Aching of our world
Why am I alive now?
Why am I alive?
I don't want to feel this
Aching color of our world
[Verse 2]
Why am I alive now?
Watching all this going down
All the animals around
Watching nature swoon and sigh
Watching all the water dry
Watch the sky fall to the Earth
Birds and insects looking for
For a place to hide
[Verse 3]
Why am I alive to watch this duress?
Why am I seeing this stress?
Hide me from my disease
Why am I alive now?
Seems there's nothing left to hold
Except keep trying to accept
Hour after lonely hour (Hour after lonely hour)
Collecting my mind
How did I arrive here?
I don't know much of anything
[Verse 4]
Except that you will take my life
I don't know why, I don't know why
I don't want to see your face
Meeting me when it's too late
Many people falling
Many people sighing
[Verse 5]
Once everything was a part of me
How did I come to be?
Now everything's gone to the floor
And all I ever want is more
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 6]
Feel the trees begin to leave
Smoke swallow each mountain side
A rail of tears leads to the sea
No more footsteps in the sand
All our memories are sinking
Into un-living
[Outro]
I don't know, I don't kn-kn-know
I don't
I don't know
I don't kn-kn-know
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
Why am I alive here?
I don't know much of anything
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know, I don't know
I don't know
I don't know why I'm alive now
I don't know why I'm alive now
I don't know
I don't know why I'm alive now
Why Am I Alive Now? was written by ANOHNI & Jimmy Hogarth.
Why Am I Alive Now? was produced by Jimmy Hogarth.
ANOHNI released Why Am I Alive Now? on Wed Jul 05 2023.
I started listening to ANOHNI in high school, so it’s a huge honor to help her build a visual world for ‘WAIAN. This music video was an honest attempt to answer the question that ‘WAIAN’ begs, ‘Why Am I Alive Now?’ I wanted to focus on the idea of finding sisterhood in a world that does nothing to h...