Why Do I Keep Counting?

By The Killers

On Sam’s Town

Released on October 2, 2006

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[Verse]

There's a plane and I am flying

There's a mountain waiting for me

Oh, these years have been so trying

I don't know if I can use them

Am I strong enough

To be the one? (Am I strong enough to be the one?)

Will I live to have some children?

(Children)


[Chorus]

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

If I only knew the answer

I wouldn't be bothering you, father

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

If I only knew the answer

And if all our days are numbered

Then why do I keep counting?


[Bridge]

My sugar sweet is so attainable

This behavior so unexplainable

The days just slip and slide, like they always did

The trouble is my head, won't let me forget

I took one last good look around

(So many unusual sounds)

I gotta get my feet on the ground


[Chorus]

Help me get down, I can make it (Oh)

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

If I only knew the answer

I wouldn't be bothering you, father

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down

If I only knew the answer

And if all our days are numbered

Would you help me get down? (I can make it, help me get down)

(Help me get down, I can make it, help me get down)

If I only knew the answer

If I change my way of living

And if I pave my streets with good times

Will the mountain keep on giving?

And if all of our days are numbered

Then why do I keep counting?