Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love And Be Loved)
Bright Eyes

Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cries hard in an apartment complex, as I pass in a car buried under the influence. The city's driving me out of my mind. I have seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity. He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity. Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I. Now, a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges. Her family is reduced to names on a shopping list. Meanwhile, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix. He know's there's worse things than being alone. I have learned to retreat at the first sign of danger. I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? Ambition, I have found, can lead only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you.

Well, I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help. With all these wishes I make, I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home. Well, My teachers, they built this retaining wall memory, all those multiple choices I answered so quickly. And I got my grades back and forgot just as easily, but at least I got an A. And so I don't have them to blame. Well, I should stop pointing fingers; reserve my judgment of all those public action figures, the cowboy president. So loud behind the bullhorn so proud they can't admit when they've made a mistake. While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, he knows he don't have to say it, so it don't bother him. Honesty Accuracy is just Popular Opinion. And the approval rating is high, so someone's gonna die. ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split. And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment. We're still the pawns in their game. As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history. Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan on the fast food marquee: Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues. Oh and the Blues! I got the Blues! That's me! That's me!

Well, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled weak from whiskey and pills, in a Chicago hospital. And my father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so far away. I tried talking, just whispered, ...so sorry...so selfish... He stopped me and said, Child I love you regardless and there is nothing you could do that would ever change this. I'm not angry. It happens. But you just can't do it again. So now I try to keep up, I have been exchanging my currency. While a million objects pass through my periphery. Now I am rubbing my eyes because they are starting to bother me. I have been staring too long at the screen. But where was it when I first heard the sweet sound of humilty? It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody. How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, to love and to be loved. Let's just hope that is enough.


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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 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   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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