Bright Eyes - Lets Not Shit Ourselves lyrics

Here we go can I get a goddamn timpani roll
To start this goddamn song?
Tonight, here's a goddamn song
For all you goddamn people

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 shoppin' list
While a coroner kneels beneath
A great wooden crucifix
He knows there's worse things
Than bein' 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?
An ambition, I've found
Can lead only to failure
I do not read the reviews, no
I am not singin' for you

Well, I stood droppin' 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 somethin' 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 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 presidents
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
It don't bother him
'Honesty, accuracy is 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
Repeatin' history
Well, I guess we all fit into your
Slogan on 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

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 starin' 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've been exchangin' my currency
While a million objects pass
Through my periphery
Now I'm rubbin' my eyes cause
They're startin' to bother me
I've been starin' 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

When I woke up this morning
It sounded like it was
Getting closer and closer
Look at it, I can't feel it
I opened the doorway and - huge
Stairway down to the ocean
Could see this huge - isn't that weird?
I like to hang out with people accepted it
Hi, Conor it's Timmy hoping that
We were still gonna record
That song tomorrow called you
Over the weekend but gravitational pull
I'm not worried about it