There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feetShe carries baskets of clothes to a laundromatWhile the Mexican children kick rocks into the streetAnd they laugh in a language I don't understandBut I love them, why do I love them?So the neighborhood's dimming as I smoke on the porchWatch the people as they pass enclosed inside their carsAnd on their faces just anger or disappointmentI start wishing there was something I could offer themConsolation, could I offer them?Never sad in their suburbs robots, water the lawnAnd everything they touch gets dusted spotlessSo they start to believe that they've not touched anything at allAnd the cars in the driveway only multiplyWell they are lost in their housesAnd heard them sing in the showerMaking speeches to their sister on the telephoneSaying, You come home, come hereDon't stay so far away from meThis weather has me wanting love more tangibleSomething I can hold because it's getting coldI said, Hold up our fists to the flame in the skyTo block out the light that's reaching for our eyesBecause, because it would blind us, it will blind usI have locked my actions in the grooves of routineSo I may never be free of this apathyBut I wait for a letter that's coming to meShe sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelopeSo there still is hope, yes I can be healedThere is someone looking for what I concealedIn my secret drawer, in my pockets deepYou will find the reasons that I can't sleepAnd you will still want meBut you still want meWill you still want me?Well, I say, Come for the week, you can sleep in my bedAnd pass through my life like a dream through my headIt will, it will be easy, I'll make it easyAll I have for the moment is a song to pass the timeA melody to keep me from worryingSome simple progression to keep my fingers busyAnd words that are sure to come back to me and they'll be laughingAnd they'll be laughingMy mediocrityMy mediocrityThey'll be laughingThey'll be laughingThey'll be laughing
Lyrics by Bright Eyes
"Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh" A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) A Celebration Upon Completion A Few Minutes on Friday A Line Allows Progress, a Circle Does Not A Machine Spiritual A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) A New Arrangement A Perfect Sonnet A Poetic Retelling Of An Unfortunate Seduction A poetic tale of unfortunate seduction A Scale, a Mirror and Those Indifferent Clocks A Scale, A Mirror, And These Indifferent Clocks A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace Act Of Contrition All of the Truth Amy In The White Coat An Attempt to Tip the Scales Another Travelin' Song Another Travellin' Song Approximate Sunlight Approximated Sunlight Arc of Time Arc of Time (Time Code) Arienette At The Bottom Of Everything At The Bottom Of Everything - (with Jim James) Attempt to Tip the Scales Away In A Manger Awful Sweetness of Escaping Sweet Bad Blood Beginner's Mind Beginner\u2019s Mind Beginner's Mind Bent On Broken Nerves Big Old House Big Old House (Jesse Harris cover) Black Comedy Blue Angels Air Show Blue Christmas Bottom Of Everything (We Must Sing) Bowl Of Oranges Bright Eyes Burn Rubber Calendar Hung Itself... Carrot Diamond Cartoon Blues Center of the World Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) Classic Cars Cleanse Song Coat Check Dream Song Common Knowledge Conor Oberst Contrast And Compare Contrast And Compare (making Words Work Mix) Coyote Song Crazy as a Loon (John Prine cover) Cremation Devil In the Details Devil In The Details - (with Nick Zinner) Devil Town Digital Ash in a Digital Urn Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come Down In a Rabbit Hole Down In A Rabbit Hole - (with Nick Zinner) Driving Fast Through a Big City at Night Drunk Kid Catholic Easy / Lucky / Free Easy \/ Lucky \/ Free Easy/Lucky/Free Easy\/Lucky\/Free - (with Nick Zinner) Emily, Sing Something Sweet Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen Empty Canyon/Empty Canteen Endless Entertainment Entry Way Song Everything Must Belong Somewhere Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor Exaltation On A Cool, Kitchen Floor Falling Out Of Love At This Volume False Advertising Famous to Me (Hurtful Kid) Feb. 15th Feb15th February Fifteenth Feeling It Feeling It (For Ian) Few Minutes on Friday Firewall First Day Of My Life Four Winds Four Winds From A Balance Beam Get Back Go Find Yourself A Dry Place God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Going For The Gold Gold Mine Gutted Haile Selassie Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh Happy Accident Happy Birthday To Me (Feb 15) Happy Birthday To Me (Feb. 15) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Hit the Switch Hot Knives How Many Lights Do You See? Hungry For A Holiday I Believe In Symmetry I Believe In Symmetry - (with Nick Zinner) I Know You I Must Belong Somewhere I Watched You Taking Off I Will Be Grateful For This Day I Will Be Grateful For This Day, I Will Be Gratefu... I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning I Won't Ever Be Happy Again I Wont Ever Be Happy Again I'll Be You Friend I'm Sorry for being Such a Crappy Friend I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (Road To Joy) I've Been Eating (For You) If The Brakeman Turns My Way If Winter Ends In The Real World It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Its Cool, We Can Still Be Friends Jejune Stars Jetsabel Removes The Undesirables Jetsabel Removes The Undesireables Joy Division Joy Division (Simon Joyner cover) June on the West Coast Karat Diamond Kathy With a K's Song Kathy With A Ks Song Lachrymose Obsequious Vehement Elated Ladder Song Land Locked Blues Landlocked Blues Landlocked Blues - (with Emmylou Harris) Laura Laurent Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved) Lets Not Shit Ourselves Light Pollution Lila Lime Tree Little Drummer Boy Loose Leaves Lover I Don't Have To Love Lua Lua [DVD] Lullaby and Exile (M. Ward cover) Make A Plan To Love Me Make War Make War (Short) Make War (Short) Make War Short Man Named Truth Messenger Bird's Song Method Acting Middleman Mirrors And Fevers Moab Motion Sickness Movement of a Hand Mushaboom Mushaboom (Feist cover) N'en Parlons Plus Napoleon's Hat Neely O'Hara No Lies Just Love No Lies, Just Love No One Would Riot For Less No Prayer North Of The City Nothing Gets Crossed Out Nothing Has Changed Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem Oh You Are The Roots That That Sleep Beneath My Fe... Oh, You Are The Roots That Sleep Beneath My Feet A... Old Soul Song Old Soul Song (For The New World Order) On My Way to Work One Foot In Front Of The Other One for You, One for Me One Straw (Please) Out On The Weekend Padraic My Prince Papa Was A Rodeo Papa Was a Rodeo (The Magnetic Fields cover) Patient Hope In New Show Patient Hope in New Snow Pioneer's Park Poison Oak Puddle Stomper Puella Quam Amo Est Pulchra Pull My Hair Racing Towards The New Reinvent The Wheel Road To Joy Roosevelt Room Saturday As Usual Scale, a Mirror, and These Indifferent Clocks Seashell Tale Seashell Tale (M. Ward cover) Shell Games Ship In a Bottle Silent Night Silver Bells Singing a Song in the Morning Singularity Smoke Without Fire Solid Jackson Something Vague Song to Pass the Time Soon You Will Be Leaving Your Man Soon You'll Be Leaving Your Man Soul Singer In A Session Band Southern State Spent On Rainy Days Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever, And A Necklace Spring Cleaning Stray Dog Freedom Sunrise, Sunset Supriya Susan Miller Rag Take it Easy (Love Nothing) Tereza And Thomas Tereza And Tomas The 'Feel Good' Revolution The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweet The Big Picture The Biggest Lie The Biggest Lie (Elliott Smith cover) The Calendar Hung Its Self The Calendar Hung Itself The Calendar Hung Itself... The Calender Hung Itself The Callendar Hung Itself The Center of the World The City Has Sex The Difference In The Shades The First Noel The Invisible Gardener The Joy In Discovery The Joy In Forgetting / The Joy In Acceptance The Joy in Forgetting \/ The Joy in Acceptance The Movement of a Hand The Night Before Christmas The Trees Get Wheeled Away The Vanishing Act Theme from Pinata Theme to Pinata Time Code Touch Tourist Trap Train Under Water Trees Get Wheeled Away Trees Get Wheeled Away [#] Triple Spiral True Blue Type Of Nigga U Need Untitled (Lovers Turn into Monsters) Walls (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers cover) Waste Of Paint We Are Free Men We Are Nowhere And It's Now We Are Nowhere And It's Now - (with Emmylou Harris... We Are Nowhere, And It's Now Weather Reports Well Whiskey When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass When The President Talks To God White Christmas You Will. You? Will. You? Will You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will You Will. You? Will. You? 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