The Decemberists - Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems to Turn Out Right lyrics

The film was a bust
But we stayed till the ending
Hair all a-mussed but your clothes
Didn't look so bad and back on the street
The rain was descending
In cold dirty sheets
So under the awning we sat
And then you hailed yourself a yellow cab

And I sat for a time by the valets in line
And I read what you wrote on the card
Above a cowboy you drew a big talk balloon
Saying "Try not to take it so hard"

But there’s this nagging suspicion that
Won’t leave me alone tonight
It’s just that everything I try to do
Nothing seems to turn out right

We laid on our backs and
Stared at the ceiling
Messed with your slacks
But ended up just holding your hand
The rain will remain, the TV was telling
A drip of the drain as your
Legs lift to brilliantly bend
And fall to resting on the ottoman

So we turned off the tube and
We crawled to your room
Leaving discarded clothes in our wake
And we both had some fun
Though I twice bit my tongue
And it lasted too long for my taste


A wink and a wave and
You’re off to your family’s
I sit and watch as the
Taxi lights distantly fade
I guess I always thought it’d end this way