The National - Walk It Back lyrics

I'm always thinking about useless things
I'm always checking out
I'm always mothering myself to bit's
I'm always checking out

Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I won't let it, I won't let it ruin my hair

I only take up a little
Of the collapsing space
I better cut this off, don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little
Of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck up the place

I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk
It back, walk it back, walk it back

I try to save it for a rainy day
It's raining all the time
Until everything is less insane
I'm mixing weed with wine

Forget it, nothing I change changes anything
I won't let it, I won't let it ruin my hair

I only take up a little
Of the collapsing space
I better cut this off, don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little
Of the collapsing space
I better cut this off, don't wanna fuck it up
I only take up a little
Of the collapsing space
I better cut this off
Don't wanna fuck up the place

I better walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk
It back, walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk
It back, walk it back, walk it back
Oh, I better walk it back, walk
It back, walk it back, walk it back

"People like you are still living in
What we call the reality
Based community you believe that solutions
Emerge from your judicious
Study of discernible reality that's not
The way the world really
Works anymore we're an empire now
And when we act, we
Create our own reality and while you
Are studying that reality judiciously
As you will we'll act again
Creating other new realities
Which you can study too
And that's how things will sort
Out we're history's actors, and
You, all of you
Will be left to just study what we do
Apparently that was written on a
Whiteboard with a red sharpie
In the Roosevelt bedroom, sometime
Around Christmas 2007 yeah
So I can't stay…"

I can't stay and I can't come back
I'll just keep awake and I won't react
I'll walk through Lawrencetown
Along the tracks my own body in my arms
But I won't collapse so don't go dark on me
It's all alright
If I'm gonna get back to you, someday
I'll need your light