Destroyer - Looters' Follies lyrics

You can huff and you can puff
But, you'll never destroy that stuff
Finally, I see why, I suppose
Kid, you better change your feathers
Cause you'll never fly with those things
In 'These Nights, ' the boys sing
"Hello, emptiness i heard you're alright
I've heard you're alright i've heard of you"

A body aching, fragile, and pale
Dark valleys house it's trail
Why can't you see that a life in
Art and a life of mimicry
It's the same thing?!

The room was crowded
And, though you couldn't care less about it
That much was true that month
Another version of this miniature Rome
To set fire to
Why did we stop fucking around?
Girls like gazelles graze
Boys wearing bells blaze new trails in sound

I looked up i looked around
A famous Toronto painter shot me down
"Oh, I've busted my ass on
These streets too long, " he said
I set fire to the bed and tore his gown

Felt some mercurial presence
Hitherto unknown it was the sun
It was a stone falling through blank space
It was that jewel-encrusted roan
Getting in my face

Looked across the way to The Princess Rooms
I saw brides and their grooms
I heard the sound of bells ringing!

Cinders look back fondly upon a
House on fire when across an ocean we go
We row and we row and we tire

Now, step out of the darkness
And into the light
Yeah, it's common knowledge I've
Been doing alright no, I can't complain
On the East side
Midwives' lives go down the drain
All cause our babies are dying

I lifted the veil to see nature's
Trickery revealed as pure shit
From which nothing ever rose
Cause nothing ever could
I swear somewhere the truth
Lies within this wood i swear
"Looters' Follies" has never sounded so good
And, win or lose, what's the difference?