Watsky, Stephen Stills - Cannonball lyrics
[Watsky, Stephen Stills - Cannonball lyrics]
I don’t know what was wrong
But, I wasn’t as strong
I’ve seen daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I’ve seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
I’m so far from perfect
You still loved me when I
So far from deserved it
If I’m so brave why does looking you in
The eye take every ounce of my courage?
I hang my face to the linoleum and
Count the freckles on the floor all of us
All of us are a galaxy of tiny little storms
The good and evil in me
Wage a bloody civil war
The missiles whistle through me then
The rebel pistols roar
I shiver and the final slivers of
My chivalry retreat my shriveled core
I can’t imagine that I’ll ever
Be happy like before before, before
We’re sitting in a field in Golden
Gate Park off Fulton and 4th
And I’ve never felt less alone
Just a block from the home I’ve outgrown
Five feet and forty years to the
Right from where dad proposed
An inch above this casserole of stones
Grass and mud, rusty needles, lost guitar
Picks, Indian tombs, and dinosaur bones
Everything happened all at once
And the world is spinning like a hubcap
And not just because of the drugs
We hugged and laid there in
Each others’ arms all night
Even when the sprinklers cried on
Us we didn’t mind
We had the rest of our lives to be dry
So we stayed until the edges
Of the sky turned light
I would have stayed until
Our hair turned white
The mosquitoes arrived to feast on time
Got drunk at our expense, we didn’t mind
We let them bite
We kept on kissing and obliged
Say "bottoms up, you’ve only got til Tuesday
So enjoy the ride!"
And I couldn’t imagine that I
Would ever be unhappy again
And I whispered in your ear that
This moment is already a poem
That I just figured out my first tattoo
Was going to be of bug bites
Decided I’d commemorate their bloody drink by
Printing three circles on my ankle
Perfect and pink in permanent ink
The beautiful wounds that will keep me
You and this moment forever linked
To remind me when I fail myself
When I fail everyone around me
When I misfire and come
Tearing through your walls
When the cocktail of humiliation and
Pain poisons my veins
And this carnival of carnage, this mansion of
Garbage, this parking lot of carcasses
This heartbreak party drains the
Spirit that remains that I have been a
Part of something worthwhile
To remind me of the pleasure of your pulse
The measure of your breath
The rise and fall of our
Fortunes and our chests
These spectacular triumphs and flops
That even if that moment meant
Nothing to the universe
It’s the closest thing to God I’ve got
I’m so far from perfect
So far it’s been worth it
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I've seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
I don’t know what was wrong
But, I wasn’t as strong
I’ve seen daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I’ve seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I've seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, I wasn’t as strong
I’ve seen daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I’ve seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
I’m so far from perfect
You still loved me when I
So far from deserved it
If I’m so brave why does looking you in
The eye take every ounce of my courage?
I hang my face to the linoleum and
Count the freckles on the floor all of us
All of us are a galaxy of tiny little storms
The good and evil in me
Wage a bloody civil war
The missiles whistle through me then
The rebel pistols roar
I shiver and the final slivers of
My chivalry retreat my shriveled core
I can’t imagine that I’ll ever
Be happy like before before, before
We’re sitting in a field in Golden
Gate Park off Fulton and 4th
And I’ve never felt less alone
Just a block from the home I’ve outgrown
Five feet and forty years to the
Right from where dad proposed
An inch above this casserole of stones
Grass and mud, rusty needles, lost guitar
Picks, Indian tombs, and dinosaur bones
Everything happened all at once
And the world is spinning like a hubcap
And not just because of the drugs
We hugged and laid there in
Each others’ arms all night
Even when the sprinklers cried on
Us we didn’t mind
We had the rest of our lives to be dry
So we stayed until the edges
Of the sky turned light
I would have stayed until
Our hair turned white
The mosquitoes arrived to feast on time
Got drunk at our expense, we didn’t mind
We let them bite
We kept on kissing and obliged
Say "bottoms up, you’ve only got til Tuesday
So enjoy the ride!"
And I couldn’t imagine that I
Would ever be unhappy again
And I whispered in your ear that
This moment is already a poem
That I just figured out my first tattoo
Was going to be of bug bites
Decided I’d commemorate their bloody drink by
Printing three circles on my ankle
Perfect and pink in permanent ink
The beautiful wounds that will keep me
You and this moment forever linked
To remind me when I fail myself
When I fail everyone around me
When I misfire and come
Tearing through your walls
When the cocktail of humiliation and
Pain poisons my veins
And this carnival of carnage, this mansion of
Garbage, this parking lot of carcasses
This heartbreak party drains the
Spirit that remains that I have been a
Part of something worthwhile
To remind me of the pleasure of your pulse
The measure of your breath
The rise and fall of our
Fortunes and our chests
These spectacular triumphs and flops
That even if that moment meant
Nothing to the universe
It’s the closest thing to God I’ve got
I’m so far from perfect
So far it’s been worth it
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I've seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
I don’t know what was wrong
But, I wasn’t as strong
I’ve seen daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I’ve seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them
But, if this was a dream
I still know that I've seen
Fields of daisies hold cannonballs above them