Let's Not **** Ourselves(to Love and to Be Loved)-Bright Eyes

Let's Not **** Ourselves(to Love and to Be Loved)

歌手:Bright Eyes

时间:2002-08-13

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Let's Not **** Ourselves(to Love and to Be Loved) - Bright Eyes (明亮的眼睛)

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've 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's reduced to names on a shopping list

While a coroner kneels beneath a great wooden crucifix

He knows there's worse things than being alone

And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger

I mean why wait around if it's just to surrender

And ambition I've 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 to call home

Well my teachers they built this retaining wall of memory

All those multiple choices I answered so quickly

And 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 judgement

Of all those public action figures the cowboy presidents

So loud behind the bullhorn so proud they can't admit

When they've made a mistake

Well poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen

He knows he don't have to say it so it it don't bother him

Honesty accuracy just popular opinion

And the approval rating's high

And so someone's gonna die

Well 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 in that 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 )

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

There's 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've been exchanging my currency

While a million objects pass through my periphery

Now I'm rubbing my eyes cause they're starting to bother me

I've been staring too long at the screen

But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility

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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