Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves lyrics
[Bright Eyes - Loose Leaves lyrics]
There are stories in the soil
Loose leaves cover the ground
There's volumes in the forest
No one reads out loud
If I could take them down
Off of that mountain shelf
We used to climb but no one tries
To go up that far now yeah
We're all too busy working
Entertaining ourselves
Forty hours television and prescription pills
Well I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who's to say
At least my doctor gets paid
So that's fine
Yeah come by we'll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or
If you want just talk
Cause I've got nothing real
Just empty space to fill
And you're my girl I like your style just
Imagine all the time we could kill
And time's not poison but once you
Drink it all you'll die
So let's just sip it real slow
Yeah we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once it's gone
We'll pour another round and
Come back to life come right back
I guess I'm moving faster now
Or that's what they said
And though some days still take
Forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that
I wake up and sleep
Look in the mirror have no
Idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down 'til
The year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks
On the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
Of staying out sleeping in and
Getting drunk with my friends
That's gone and I know that
It won't ever come back
I accept I won't cling to what
I had in the past
But life's a slippery slope
Regret's the steepest hill
Hope for the best, plan for the worst and
Maybe wind up somewhere in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't
Don't want to rot in my room
And never know what could have been
Believe what everyone else tells me is true
Yeah, they say 'true' that's what they say
Loose leaves cover the ground
There's volumes in the forest
No one reads out loud
If I could take them down
Off of that mountain shelf
We used to climb but no one tries
To go up that far now yeah
We're all too busy working
Entertaining ourselves
Forty hours television and prescription pills
Well I take two a day to make my brain behave
It never does but who's to say
At least my doctor gets paid
So that's fine
Yeah come by we'll take the afternoon off
We can kiss and undress or
If you want just talk
Cause I've got nothing real
Just empty space to fill
And you're my girl I like your style just
Imagine all the time we could kill
And time's not poison but once you
Drink it all you'll die
So let's just sip it real slow
Yeah we can nurse it all night
Try to believe that once it's gone
We'll pour another round and
Come back to life come right back
I guess I'm moving faster now
Or that's what they said
And though some days still take
Forever I can't disagree
Because it seems to me that
I wake up and sleep
Look in the mirror have no
Idea what happened in between
But I remember counting days down 'til
The year could be done
So I could scatter all my notebooks
On the prep school lawn
And disappear again into a summer's bliss
Of staying out sleeping in and
Getting drunk with my friends
That's gone and I know that
It won't ever come back
I accept I won't cling to what
I had in the past
But life's a slippery slope
Regret's the steepest hill
Hope for the best, plan for the worst and
Maybe wind up somewhere in the middle
And I'm not saying that I know what I want
But I know what I don't
Don't want to rot in my room
And never know what could have been
Believe what everyone else tells me is true
Yeah, they say 'true' that's what they say