I Know You
Bright Eyes

Walking with you through the courtyard
Where everything's marble and smooth
You said the idea of perfection
Was just fundamentally cruel
And talked about joining the circus
And trading your face for a mask

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can

We made quite a pair in the morning
We both tend to traffic in dreams
Seeing it now from the outside
You kept all your dark ones for me
And said that you plan to go rambling
As you sat on that big windowsill

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will

You long to go hide in the bramble
Or fall off the face of the earth
You wish you could live with the beggars
On the steps of some crumbling church
You say that you'd like to go hungry
But the truth is you just had your fill

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will

On Sundays, you stroll through the market
And feel like you've traveled through time
Buying back all your possessions
That were stolen in some former life
Returned to me, tied in a corset
To say, Don't you know who I am?

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can
Yes, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can

Been trying to make an invention
Something the world's never seen
To sweep away all of the trouble
And leave the place shiny and clean
Patent your brave new creation
And hold it right there in your hand

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you can

I waited for you at the landing
The water was crystal and calm
All these ideas of forever
Are just fundamentally wrong
You say that your love makes you honest
Then you're caught with your hand in the till

Oh, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will
Yes, I know you want to
I just don't believe that you will


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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)   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 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

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