Bright Eyes - A Perfect Sonnet lyrics

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire
Something that would make me
Never want another
Something that would make it
So that nothing mattered
All would be clear then
But I guess I'll have to settle
For a few brief moments
And watch it all dissolve
Into a single second
And try to write it down
Into a perfect sonnet or one foolish line

Cause that's all that you'll get
So you'll have to accept
You are here then you're gone
But I believe that lovers
Should be tied together
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather
And left there to drown
Left there to drown in their innocence

But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter
I read all of the pages and
There is still no answer
Only all that was before I
Know must soon come after
That is the only way it can be

So I stand in the sun
And I breathe with my lungs
I'm trying to spare me the
Weight of the truth

Saying everything you've ever seen
Was just a mirror
Spent your whole life sweating
In an endless fever
And now you're laying in a
Bathtub full of freezing water
Wishing you were a ghost
But once you knew a girl
And you named her Lover
Danced with her in kitchens
Through the greenest summer
Autumn came, she disappeared
You can't remember where she said
She was going to

But you know that she's gone cause
She left you a song
That you don't want to sing
Singing I believe that lovers
Should be chained together
Thrown into a fire with
Their songs and letters
And left there to burn
Left there to burn in their arrogance

But as for me I'm coming to my final failure
Killed myself with changes trying
To make things better
Ended up becoming something other than what
I had planned to be
Now I believe that lovers should
Be draped in flowers
And laid entwined together on a bed of clover
And left there to sleep
Left there to dream of their happiness