There is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God. The bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block. Well, they must have been attached to wires. I'd seen one laying in the lawn with a broken arm, so I called 911. Well that is one less founded opinion. One more cause for a dispute. So the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews and they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth. It was a spectacle. No, I-I mean a miracle. So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam. A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other and I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes.Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the time is right. When the planets will align. There will be no planets to align. Just the carcass of the sun and those little painted marbles spinning senseless through an endless black sky. [and so it never started and it will never stop just like I am and you are] It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change. And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been. I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror and someone new was there. But, I was as helpless as a chess piece when I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in. But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell that is myself.So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock and the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing. Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is gonna come, don't know when but it will come and we'll finally know the way out of here. And I will throw away this wrinkled map and my chart of stars and compass, cracked. And I'll climb that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below. I'll cut out my love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and then we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever wonder again about how this song or story ends about how this song and story will end.
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 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) 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 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? Will. You? Will. You WillYou? WillYou? WillYou? Will