Bright Eyes - Everything Must Belong Somewhere lyrics

Leave the bright blue door
On the whitewashed wall
Leave the death ledger under City Hall
Leave the joyful air in
That rubber ball today
Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
Leave the birds you killed
At your father's feet
Let the sideways rain and
The crooked street remain
Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
Leave the dead star lit on her pedestal
Leave the acid kids in
Their green fishbowls today
Just leave the sad guitar
In it's hard-shelled case
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain
Cause everything - it must belong somewhere
A train off in the distance
Bicycle chained to the stairs
Everything - it must belong somewhere
I know that now - that's why I'm staying here
Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
Leave the widower in his private hell
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today
Leave the epic poem on it's yellow page
Leave the gray macaw in his covered cage
Let the traveling band on
The interstate remain
Cause everything - it must belong somewhere
Soundstage in California televisions
In Times Square
Everything - it must belong somewhere
I know that now - that's why I'm staying here
Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed
Leave the garden tools in the rusted shed
Leave those bad ideas in
Your troubled head today
Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
Leave the homeless man in his cardboard cell
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain
Cause everything - it must belong somewhere
Just like the gold around her finger
Or the silver in his hair
Everything - it must belong somewhere
I know that now - that's why I'm staying here
In truth
The forest hears each sound - each blade
Of grass as it lies down
The world requires no audience
- no witnessesno witnesses
Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
Leave the autumn leaves in the swimming pool
Leave the poor black child in
His crumbling school today
Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
Leave the scientist in his Rubik's Cube
Let the true genius in the padded room remain
Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow
Leave the slot machines on the river boat
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today
Leave the hot
Bright trash in the shopping malls
Leave the hawks of war in their capitol
Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain
Cause everything - it must belong somewhere
They locked the devil in the basement
Threw God up into the air
Everything - it must belong somewhere
And you know it's true - I
Wish you'd leave me here
You know it's true - why
Don't you leave me here?