Bowl Of Oranges
Bright Eyes

The rain, it started tapping on the window near my bed.

There was a loophole in my dreaming, so I got out of it.

And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open.

Just my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been.

So I dressed myself and left then, out into the gray streets.

But everything seemed different and completely new to me.

The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body.

And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet.

I came up a doctor who appeared in quite poor health.

I said (I am terribly sorry but) there is nothing I can do for you (that) you can't do for yourself.

He said Oh yes you can. Just hold my hand. I think that would help.

So I sat with him a while and then I asked him how he felt.

He said, I think I'm cured. No, in fact, I'm sure of it.

Thank you Stranger, for your therapeutic smile.


So that is how I learned the lesson that everyone is alone.

And your eyes must do some raining if you are ever going to grow.

But when crying don't help and you can't compose yourself.

It is best to compose a poem, an honest verse of longing or simple song of hope.

That is why I'm singing...

Baby don't worry cause now I got your back.

And every time you feel like crying,

I'm gonna try and make you laugh.

And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad,

Then we will wait for it to pass and I will keep you company

Through those days so long and black.

And we'll just keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve

Of Love's uneven remainder.

There lies the fractions of a whole.

But if the world could remain in a frame like a painting on a wall.

Then I think we would see the beauty.

Then we would stand staring in awe at our still lives posed like a bowl of oranges,

Like a story told by the fault lines and the soil.


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  "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 Song to Pass the Time   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)   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. 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You? Will. You? Will   You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will   You Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.   You WillYou? WillYou? WillYou? Will

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