Monsters of Folk - Map of the World lyrics

There's a map of the world on
The wall in your room
Green pins where you wanna go
White pins where you've been
There isn't even ten
And you're already feeling old

Pretty faces stare back from
The magazine stack
That you read when you're feeling bored
Look through a telescope lens
It doesn't make sense
You think you've been there before

Some far off feeling
Some up close kind of ache
A wide screen reason to look the other way

There's a place by the lake that
You go when it's late
In the summer when the crowds are gone
And you sit all alone with
Your thoughts getting stoned
Just waiting for some peace to come

Like the thing that you tried that
You thought that you liked
For a minute then it all felt wrong
So you change it again, all your clothes
All your friends
It's the same as it ever was

That far off feeling
That up close kind of ache
Some wide screen reason to look the other way

It's the road that you
Paved over Indian graves
And you wonder why your dreams are crazed
So you cling to your wife, your kids
Your life
There's nothing that you're gonna save

Put the razor to your face
Hot water for a shave
Kill the shadow of yesterday
Clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate
Second chance you're going by another name

Some far off feeling
An up-close kind of ache
That instant karma always comes too late