How to Eat Life

This article is about the song named How to Eat Life. For the light novel based on it, see How to Eat Life (Novel).

## How to Eat Life

* YouTube cover
* DVD Cover

### Music info

**Lyrics / composition:** Eve
**Arrangement:** Numa

## Music Video

### Characters

*Tobi Otogiri
Noppo
Monika (cameo)
The Headless Dragon
Hitotsume-sama (cameo)
Pattun (cameo)
Mocchi (cameo)*

**How to Eat Life** (いのちの食べ方, *inochi no tabekata*) is the 5th track in the album "Smile". In the video, Tobi Otogiri chases the Headless Dragon.

## Background

Originally released along with the Smile album, its music video was later released on YouTube with a different music arrangement.

## Lyrics

* Japanese
* Romaji
* English

足りないもの探して バックパッカー

かっとなっては やっちまった

急展開に期待しなくたって

きっと君は来ないってないってば

"ビビディバビデブー"

おまじないみたいなもんさ

帰りを今も待ち望んでは

その感動はまた走り去った

これじゃないと あれじゃないと　焦りだけが募るようだ

隣に握りしめる手が欲しかった

温もりを知らぬまま

心まで貧しくなって

グレイの海を彷徨った

美は満ち溢れているんだ

見過ごすな

夜が明ける前に酔いを醒まして

時間がないんだ君には

盲目でいたいの 退屈な今日を

超えていきたいんだきっと

声が届くまで想いをぶつけて

ふらふらになってしまうまで

僕らにそれを忘れることを許さないから

考えることすらやめてしまいな

真夜中踊りだすマッドハッター

あっというまに 経っちまった

空想上に期待したくなって

きっと君はこないってないってば

現実との狭間で泣いて

腹を裂かれるこの思いで

飲み干した言葉の棘が刺さる

その滑稽さだけが残った

お気に入りの カトラリーは　至福だけを運ぶようだ

テーブルをみんなで囲みたかったんだ

ナイフを突き立てては

君の喉仏を裂いて

指先を湿らせたんだ

フォークの使い方なんて

誰にも教わらなかった

真理を見ようとしないで

命の重さを量った

揺らめく篝火の中

何をみた

夜が明ける前に酔いを醒まして

時間がないんだ君には

盲目でいたいの 退屈な今日を

超えていきたいんだきっと

声が届くまで想いをぶつけて

ふらふらになってしまうまで

僕らにそれを忘れることを許さないから

考えることすらやめてしまいな

僕が食べる前に僕を見つけて

Tarinai mono sagashite BAKKUPAKKA

Katto natte wa yacchimatta

Kyuu tenkai ni kitai shinakuta tte

Kitto kimi wa konai tte nai tte ba

"bibidi babidi buu"

omajinai mitai na mon sa

kaeri o ima mo machi nozonde wa

Sono kandou wa mata hashiri satta

Kore ja nai to, are ja nai to

Aseri dake ga tsunoru you da

Tonari ni nigiri shimeru te ga hoshikatta

Nukumori o shiranu mama

Kokoro made mazushiku natte

Gurei no umi o samayotta

Bi wa michi afurete irun da

Misugosu na

Yoru ga

Akeru mae ni yoi o samashite

Jikan ga nain da kimi ni wa

Moumoku de itai no taikutsu na kyou o

Koete ikitain da kitto

Koe ga

Todoku made omoi o butsukete

Furafura ni natte shimau made

Bokura ni sore o wasureru koto o yurusanai kara

Kangaeru koto sura yamete shimai na

Mayonaka odori dasu MADDO HATTA

Atto iu ma ni tacchimatta

Kuusoujou ni kitai shitakunatte

Kitto kimi wa konai tte nai tte ba

Genjitsu to no hazama de naite

Hara wo sakareru kono omoide

Nomi hoshita kotoba no toge ga sasaru

Sono kokkeisa dake ga nokotta

Okiniiri no KATORARII wa

Shifuku dake o hakobu you da

TEEBURU o minna de kakomitakattan da

NAIFU o tsuki tatete wa

Kimi no nodobotoke o saite

Yubisaki wo shimerasetan da

FOOKU no tsukaikata nante

Dare ni mo osowaranakatta

Shinri o miyou to shinaide

Inochi no omosa o hakatta

Yurameku kagaribi no naka

Nani o mita?

Yoru ga

Akeru mae ni yoi o samashite

Jikan ga nain da kimi ni wa

Moumoku de itai no taikutsu na kyou o

Koete ikitain da kitto

Koe ga

Todoku made omoi o butsukete

Furafura ni natte shimau made

Bokura ni sore o wasureru koto o yurusanai kara

Kangaeru koto sura yamete shimai na

Boku ga

Taberu mae ni boku o mitsukete

A backpacker, who is searching for something missing​,

flew into a rage yet again

Even if I were to get hopeful over sudden happenings

you wouldn't appear at all

"Bippity Boppity Booー"

Reciting it just like a spell,

but I'm still anxiously waiting for its return

Yet again those emotions escaped me

It isn't this, nor that

This is just making me more impatient

All I wanted was a hand next to me to hold

because I don't know the warmth of it at all

This poverty have reached my heart

while wandering around the gray sea

The beauty of it is overflowing

Do not overlook it

Tonight, ​before tomorrow comes, sober up

You're running out of time

I want to be blinded​ from this dull today

and go beyond it

Surely your voice

Has yet to hit and make all these thoughts go away

Until I'm overcome with unsteadiness

For both of us, to forget that is unforgivable

As long as you don’t ever stop thinking of it

The Mad Hatter that dances at midnight

vanishes before you could say a thing

Even if I were to lower my expectations

you wouldn't appear at all

Crying in the gap between reality

my stomach being torn apart with this thought

The thorns of the words I've gulped down stab me

Only that absurdity was left over

My favorite cutlery seems to only bring bliss

Everyone was gathering around the table

just to thrust forward the knife

while tearing out your Adam's Apple

I wet the tips of my fingers

How to use a fork

No one has ever taught me

Do not try to look at the truth

Measuring the weight of life

In that wavering bonfire,

what did you see?

Tonight

Before tomorrow comes, sober up

You're running out of time

I want to be blinded from this dull today

and go beyond it

Surely, my voice

has yet to hit and make all these thoughts go away

until I get overcome with unsteadiness

For both of us, to forget that is unforgivable

As long as you don’t ever stop thinking of it

Before I eat myself, find me
## Music Video

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## Trivia

* The scene at 2:06 is a reference to Leonardo da Vinci's *Last Supper*, a painting depicting the titular night in Christianity. It was said to be Jesus's last night alive, where he announced to his disciples that one of them (Judah) will betray him the next day.
	+ Hitotsume-sama is in the place of Jesus.
	+ There is no character representing Judah. They would be in between Pattun and Mocchi, but instead there is a gap.
* Chapter 15 of the manga shares its title with this song.
* The album version and MV version feature different a instrumental.