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Agenda Suicide lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by The Faint)

You could follow logic or contest it all

The work solution makes the common house a home

The element of progress that you mention's gone

It de-evolved to something you were headed toward

As I lay to die, the things I think

Did I waste my time? I think I did

I worked for life

All we want are just pretty little homes

Our work makes pretty little homes

Like a cast shadow, like a fathers dream

Have a cut-out son, what's a worse disease?

To get that pretty little home

As I lay to die, the things I think

I don't want to regret what I did

And work for life

All we want are just pretty little homes

Our work makes pretty little homes

Agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die

And give up on pretty little homes

Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow

Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow

Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow

Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow

Our work makes pretty little homes

(Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow)

Our work makes pretty little homes

(Like a cast shadow, like a cast shadow)

Agenda suicide, the drones work hard before they die

And give up on pretty little homes

Christmas In Prison lyrics - Bright Eyes (feat. John Prine)

It was Christmas in prison, the food was real good

We had turkey and pistols carved out of wood

I dream of her always, even when I don't dream

Her name's on my tongue and her blood's in my stream

Wait awhile, eternity

Old mother nature's got nothing on me

So come to me, run to me, come to me now

We're rolling, my sweetheart, we're flowing, by God

She reminds me of a chess game with someone I admire

Or a picnic in the rain after a prairie fire

Her heart is as big as this whole goddamn jail

And she's sweeter than saccharin at a drug store sale

Wait awhile, eternity

Old mother nature's got nothing on me

Ah, come to me, run to me, come to me now

We're rolling, my sweetheart, we're flowing, by God

The searchlight in the big yard swings 'round like a gun

And the spotlights, the snowflakes, like the dust in the sun

It's Christmas in prison, there'll be music tonight

And I'll probably get homesick, I love you, goodnight

Wait awhile, eternity

Old mother nature's got nothing on me

So come to me, run to me, come to me now

We're rolling, my sweetheart, we're flowing, by God

Coyote Song lyrics - Bright Eyes

Loving you is easy

I can do it in my sleep

I dream of you so often

It's like you never leave

But you're gone below the border

With a nightmare in between

I'm sending the coyote

To bring you back to me

Where there's a fancy hotel waiting

In south San Gabriel

Where the movie madams sunbathe

The playboys para-sail

And I know you think I'm crazy

But most people they can't tell

So I'll meet you there tomorrow

If I can have you to myself

Inside the time I tried to occupy or waste

Since you've been away

It's hard our plans are stalled on calling cards

I can't see your poker face

While your voice is sounding so brave

Our Lady Guadalupe

In plaster on the wall

Joseph Smith saw Jesus in America

Well I don't know much about it

It doesn't matter much at all

Just keep your head down lady

As you travel through the dark

And if I should seem distracted

By the color of the sky

As a copper wire sunset plays a lullaby

It's just to know they've stolen

Another day from you and I

It gets me feeling low down

When the moon is fulling high

They bait the route

To take the place that's safe

That you might wait a day

A lonesome broken dawn

That finally comes

Just as I was losing faith

You keep every promise you make

Loving you is easy

I can do it in my sleep

I dream of you so often

It's like you never leave

But you're gone below the border

With a nightmare in between

So I'm sending the coyote

To bring you back to me

Yes I'm sending the coyote

To bring you back to me

Double Joe lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Simon Joyner)

The light is green, but you're not moving

It's a stoplight, after all

It's not a go light

It ain't your night

You need a bug-light, so you can pop and crawl

Sure, I'll share your ugly duckling alcohol

Surgery's over and you're bouncin' back

So spill your guts, friend

But, hey, not on my pants

You're not out of luck

You still got half a pack of cigarettes

It's anomie, lonely, lonely boy

Why don't you go see a show?

It's a sure-fire cure

Pretend the drumbeat is your heart

Double Joe

Double Joe

He ain't afraid of his cymbals

All those jumpin' jacks

They're just heart attacks

The sugar smacks you every time

You wanna be anonymous, well

You could be like parallel lines

If you wanna be untouchable, well

You could be a hologram

But home is where you hang out

Not where you hang yourself

Life is just a fleetin' opportunity

To do a belly-dance on an atomic particle

Existence is essence and love is just a silly aftertaste

It's anomie, lonely, lonely, boy

Why don't you go see a show?

It's a sure-fire cure

Pretend the drumbeat is your heart

Double Joe

Double Joe

He ain't afraid of his cymbals

Double Joe

He ain't afraid of his cymbals

Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Townes Van Zandt)

Well the drunken clown's still hanging round

But it's plain the laughter's all died down

The tears you tried so hard to hide are flowing

And a blind man with his knife in hand

Has convinced himself that he understands

I wish him well, Miss Carousel

But I got to be a-goin'

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And proudly call your name

Well, the lady's been told that all the gold

Is worth so much it can't be sold

No time to weep, she'll need her sleep tomorrow

When she carries her face to the market place

And bets it on the opening race

She can ring her bells, Miss Carousel

But her singing brings me sorrow

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And I'll proudly call your name

Well, it's always done, every mother's son

Is shown that grown men never run

So they fight with all the might they have inside them

When the battle's been fought and they've all been taught

That the trick is just not being caught

Will you give 'em hell, Miss Carousel

When they're begging you to hide them?

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And proudly call your name

When the need arose, your eyes fell closed

You clamped your fingers 'round your nose

Would you say that's any way to judge him?

Well, you haven't got the authority

To kill him in the first degree

But would you feel compelled, Miss Carousel

If you had something to begrudge him?

On a velvet beach far beneath the reach

Of those that come to pry and preach

The natural man that tried to stand is fallin'

How long will it be before he sees

You own his legs, but his mind is free?

Only you can tell, Miss Carousel

How long will he be crawling?

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And proudly call your name

Ah the castle wall has grown so tall

Seems there ain't no hope at all to reach the top

Even though you stop for breathing

But I ain't gonna try to make you cry

The tear drops couldn't find your eyes

It's all been swell, Miss Carousel

But the time has come for leaving

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And proudly call your name

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And proudly call your name

Won't you come and get me when

You're sure that you don't need me then?

I'll stand outside your window

And I proudly call your name

Flirted With You All My Life lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Vic Chesnutt)

I am a man

I am self-aware

Everywhere I go

You're always right there with me

I flirted with you all my life

Even kissed you once or twice

And to this day I swear it was nice

But, clearly, I was not ready

When you touched a friend of mine

I thought that I would lose my mind

But I found out with time

That, really, I was not ready (No, no)

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, really, I'm not ready

Oh death, you hector me

And decimate those dear to me

You tease me with your sweet relief

You are cruel and you are constant

When my mom was cancer sick

She fought but then succumbed to it

But you made her beg for it

"Lord Jesus, please, I'm ready"

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, really, I'm not ready (No, no, no)

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, clearly, I'm not ready (No)

Oh death, oh death

Oh death, clearly, I'm not ready

Hypnotist (Song For Daniel H) lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Lullaby for the Working Class)

I dreamt I was an astronaut

Safely orbiting the womb

I came across my wife and baby

Already clinging to this singularity

Dear wife, please forgive me

If I sometimes forget what

Blessings I should be rejoicing

The prophet is a shipwrecked son

Keeps waking up here

The kingdom still is a hoax

Gotta build your own, son

The prophet is a shipwrecked son

Keeps waking up here

The kingdom still is a hoax

Gotta build your own, son

I dreamt I was a firefighter

But the flames were never real

I dreamt I was an engineer

I designed it, dear

The world's perfect treadmill

I dreamt I was a hypnotist

A farmer and an architect

A poet and an acrobat

I dreamt the flames were real

The prophet is a shipwrecked son

Keeps waking up here

The kingdom still is a hoax

Gotta build your own, son

The prophet is a shipwrecked son

Keeps waking up here

The kingdom still is a hoax

Gotta build your own, son

I dreamt I was an astronaut

Miracle Of Life lyrics - Bright Eyes (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)

Wrapped herself around him like a tourniquet

Cold October nights she'd wear his leather jacket

Ahhh, now she's scared of taking a piss

Can't be sure she's positive

Made her an appointment, she was two months late

The car they borrowed broke down 'fore they got out of state

Towed back into town, what a drag

She's feeling sick, he's feeling bad

Such is the miracle of life

The essence of family is to sacrifice

We could be done with it tonight

The neighborhood doctor says it's sanitized

Lay down on the hard cold ground

Crying's such a soothing sound

Get cured with a coat hanger

Girl, you're in America now

Woke up in the morning in a cousin's bed

Something don't look right, septic, infected and red

Hot forehead like a frying pan

From fever dreams of sweaty men

Lay down on the hard cold ground

Crying's such a soothing sound

Get cured with a coat hanger

Girl, you're in America now

Such is the miracle of life

The essence of love is to sacrifice

We could be done with it tonight

The neighborhood doctor says it's sanitized

Lay down on the hard cold ground

Crying's such a soothing sound

Get cured with a coat hanger

Girl, you're in America now

Expired on a Sunday

She was young and blonde

Went right up to heaven

We're all children of god

November lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Azure Ray)

So I'm waiting for this test to end

So these lighter days can soon begin

I'll be alone, but maybe more carefree

Like a kite that floats so effortlessly

I was afraid to be alone

But now I'm scared that's how I'd like to be

All the faces none the same

How can there be so many personalities?

So many lifeless, empty hands

So many hearts in great demand

And now my sorrow seems so far away

Until I'm taken by these bolts of pain

But I turn them off and tuck them away

Until these rainy days that make them stay

And then I'll cry so hard to these sad songs

And the words still ring, once here, now gone

And they echo through my head everyday

I don't think they'll ever go away

Just like thinking of your childhood home

But we can't go back, we're on our own

Oh...

But I'm about to give this one more shot

I'll find it in myself, I'll find it in myself

So we're speeding towards that time of year

To the day that marks that you're not here

And I think I'll want to be alone

So please understand if I don't answer the phone

I'll just sit and stare at my deep blue walls

Until I can see nothing at all

Only particles, some fast, some slow

All my eyes can see is all I know

Oh...

But I'm about to give this one more shot

Gotta find it in myself, I gotta find it in myself

(Do, do, do, do-do-do...)

Nunca Seré Feliz Otra Vez (Companion Version) lyrics - Bright Eyes

La mañana llegó y vistió el cielo

De vestido amarillo

Las tiendas todas han abierto

En el centro de la ciudad

Llenas de gente que compran regalos

Para sus amigos y amantes

Ya si para que no están solos nunca más

Un bosque cercado se convierte en jardín

Como una canción nace del sonido

La manzana cayó y nos enseñó

Que estamos encadenados

Así que, ¡Aquí vamos, no escape!

No es sólida en estas calles

Así que nunca seré feliz otra vez

Parece ser que tú también

Ves llorar al cielo azul

Y nunca entenderás el movimiento

De una mano diciendo adiós

Pero cómo la historia va, o cómo la cuentan

Un nuevo día surgirá

En los salones de baile se llenarán de esqueletos

Que vuelven a la vida

Y en la colina, el cordero y el león se acostarán

Así que nunca estarán solos otra vez

No, no, no, no

¡No, imposible!

Pero hasta entonces creo que debo encontrar

Incredulidad para suspender

Porque no quiero sentirme así otra vez

Running Back lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Thin Lizzy)

I'm a fool now that it's over

Can you guess my name?

I make my money singing songs about you

It's my claim to fame

When they say it's over

It's not all over, there's still the pain

I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

Oh I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

If I said I was sorry

Would you still leave me?

I never thought you'd go 'till you did

Believe me

When they say it's over

It's not all over completely

'Cause I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

Yes I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

I miss that girl

The show is over

We must all go home

Just leave me by myself

I'll be alright here on my own

If it's all over, if it's all over

And I'm all alone

I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

Don't you know I'd come running

I'd come running back to you again

St. Ides Heaven lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Elliott Smith)

Everything is exactly right

When I walk around here drunk every night

With an open container from 7-Eleven

In St. Ides Heaven

I've been out hauntin' the neighborhood

Everyone can see I'm no good

When I'm walkin' out between parked cars

With a head full of stars

High on amphetamines

The moon is a light bulb breakin'

It'll go around with anyone

But it won't come down for anyone

You think you know what brings me down

That I want those things you could never allow

You see me smilin', you think it's a frown

Turned upside down

'Cause everyone is a fuckin' pro

They all got answers from trouble they've known

They all got to say what you should and shouldn't do

Though they don't have a clue

High on amphetamines

The moon is a light bulb, it's breaking

It'll go around with anyone

But it won't come down for anyone

And I won't come down for anyone

When You Were Mine lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Prince)

When you were mine

I gave you all of my money

Time after time

You done me wrong

Just like a train

You let all of my friends come over and meet

You were so strange

You didn't have the decency to change the sheets

Oh, when you were mine

I used to let you wear all of my clothes

You were so fine

Maybe that's the reason that it hurt me so

I know (I know)

That you're going with another guy

I don't care (Don't care)

'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie

I love you more than I did

When you were mine

When you were mine

You were kinda sorta my best friend

I was so blind

I let you fool around

I never cared

I never was the kind to make a fuss

When he was there

Sleeping in between the two of us

I know (I know)

That you're going with another guy

I don't care (Don't care)

'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie

I love you more than I did

When you were mine

When you were mine

You were all I ever wanted to do

Now I spend my time

Following him whenever he's with you

I know (I know)

That you're going with another guy

I don't care (Don't care)

'Cause I love you, baby, that's no lie

I love you more than I did

When you were mine

I love you more, I love you more

I love you more than I did

When you were mine

I love you more, I love you more, I love you more

I love you more, I love you more

Wrecking Ball lyrics - Bright Eyes

(originally by Gillian Welch)

Look out boys, 'cause I'm a rollin' stone

That's the way it's been since I first left home

Took every secret I'd ever known

And headed for the wall

Like a wrecking ball

Started down this road to sin

Playin' bass under a pseudonym

The days were rough it was all quite dim

But my mind cuts through it all

Like a wrecking ball

I was just a little Deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

I was just a little Deadhead

A darling daughter on a scholarship

Well I got tired and let my average slip

Then I was a farmer in the pogonip

Where the weed that I recall

Was like a wrecking ball

I met a lovesick daughter of the San Joaquin

She showed me colors that I'd never seen

And drank the bottom out of my canteen

Then left me in the fall

Like a wrecking ball

Standin' there in the morning mist

A Jack & Coke at the end my wrist

Yes, I remember when first we kissed

Though it was nothing at all

Like a wrecking ball

Hey boys, was just little Deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

I was just a little Deadhead

With too much trouble for me to shake

Oh, the weather and the blinding ache

Was riding high until the '89 quake

Hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall

Like a wrecking ball

I was just a little Deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

I was just a little Deadhead

Who is watching, who is watching?

Who is watching, who is watching?

"The People's Key" (2011)

• Firewall Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Shell Games Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Jejune Stars Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Approximate Sunlight Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Haile Selassie Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• A Machine Spiritual (In The People’s Key) Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Triple Spiral Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Beginner's Mind Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• Ladder Song Lyrics – Bright Eyes
• One For You, One For Me Lyrics – Bright Eyes

Firewall Lyrics – Bright Eyes

If there is no such thing as time, you're already there, and you're controlling this cycle. You say, "Man, look what we found here, Einstein, " or whoever you're talking to, Tesla - whoever you're talking to. Problems of the future can be solved by mankind because you create them. And you have to believe in the future, it's what we have to do. We progress, we always progress - we try to. So the Sumerian tablets, they say the same thing like Genesis said, that there were chariots of fire that came into the sky. And these beings got out of them, and they walked like a man but they had reptilian features. They had snake-like eyes, a tail, and, uh, scales, right? And they were - they were here, and they made slaves out of the people. And where they landed in is what the Bible calls the Garden of Eden. They were trying to inbreed with the people here. The women would die, the babies were deadborn. But after two thousand years they started taking, the babies started being born and living. And they had tails, they had a few reptilian features. They could phase shift from one dimension to another dimension, and the people who know say it's from the fourth dimension - the next dimension. Space is expanding; there are spirits coming from the center, right? We're going counterclockwise. There's supposed to be eight other universes going counterclockwise, and that's called Superuniverse, you know? And love's always been the message. It's just - circumstances happen, right? People freak out, just flat flip out, you know? Well, that's where Hitler came from, Hitler came from that way. He was an outspoken, charismatic yeller. And, and all these people said, "Hey, we'll use this guy, hey, look at all these people listening to this guy." You know what I mean? And so that's just what the trip's like, that. You know? It still exists, and their bloodline goes back - back into Sumerian times. You know, they didn't call it reptilian, they didn't call it that. But they did, because they called him Satan, they called him the Devil, and it's the same damn trip. It's a negative force, coming in on a positive force, because it's a third dimension, right? And for it to solidify or to crystallize, it has to have both elements, right? And you have to keep it in balance, or it will, it will, one of them will destroy the other...

I do my best to sleep through the caterwaul
The classicist, the posture in avant-garde
I bought a gray macaw, named him Jules Verne
He'll probably outlive me - he's a bright bird
Keeps me company, I teach him new words

I saw a hologram at the theme park
She looked as real as me through the white fog
Then she melted down to her ankles
Turned into a million watt candle
If I knew where she went, I would follow

Walking through the land of tomorrow
Martian trinkets, plastic Apollos
In the sunshine, try to act normal
My veins are full of flat cherry cola
Slept on a bench by the rollercoaster

Dreamed I was riding on a motorbike
Lion of Judah, painted on the side

I'm doing fine, I'm back in the Palisades
Life's a wash, a pastoral school play
China shops and cold ivory towers
I and I make toast to the Caesars
Forcing down the dregs of Decembers

Madeleine, she spins in a slow bang
All through the house, the strong smell of burnt sage
Let's make it clean and run out the spirits
I know a diving bell when I hear it

We're going down now under the surface
Light to dark can shift in an instant
Feeling close but keeping my distance
On all fours she's just so insistent
Fills my mind with jump ropes and slit wrists
Bust through the firewall into Heaven

And then I'm standing in that blinding light
Crooked crosses falling from the sky

Seen yeah seen by I and I [x7]
Seen yeah seen
Seen yeah seen
By I and I

Shell Games Lyrics – Bright Eyes

Took the fireworks and the vanity
The circuit board and the city streets
Shooting star, swaying palm tree
Laid it at the arbiter's feet

If I could change my mind, change the paradigm
Prepare myself for another life
Forgive myself for the many times
I was cruel to something helpless and weak

But here it come, that heavy love
I'm never going to move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tag it on a tenement wall
Here it come, that heavy love
Someone got to share in the load
Here it come, that heavy love
I'm never going to move it alone

I was dressed in white, touched by something pure
Death obsessed like a teenager
Sold my tortured youth, piss and vinegar
I'm still angry with no reason to be

At the architect who imagined this
For the everyman, blessed Sisyphus
Slipping steadily into madness
Now that's the only place to be free

But here it come, that heavy love
You're never going to move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tattooed on a criminal's arm
Here it come, that heavy love
Someone got to share in the load
Here it come, that heavy love
You're never going to move it alone

No, I don't want to play
It's a shell game, it's a shell game

Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes
Distorted facts, I could never cope
My private life is an inside joke
No one will explain it to me

We'll be everything that we ever needed
Everyone, on the count of three!
Everyone, on the count of three!
All together now!

Here it come, that heavy love
We're never going to move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Playing as the cylinder rose
Here it come, that heavy love
I only want to share in the load
Here it come, that heavy love
I'm never going to move it alone

Jejune Stars Lyrics – Bright Eyes

Every new day is a gift, it's a song of redemption
Any expression of love is the way to return
To that place that I think of so often, but now never mention
The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don't deserve

Come fire, come water, come karma
We're all in transition
The wheel I'm becoming erases the physical mind
Until all that remains is a staircase of misinformation
And the code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life

So I go, umbrella under my arm
Into the green of the radar
How'd it get so dark in the day?
It's just so bizarre
Is it true what we're made of?
Why do I hide from the rain?

Inside's so cloudy, nostalgia
But there are no features
Look at ourselves through a porthole
The passage of time
See that sunny day that we snuck out, hid under the bleachers
Kissed as the band marched
Everything fell into line

So I go, umbrella under my arm
Into the green of the radar
How'd I get so lost? I'm amazed
It's just so bizarre
All the things I'm afraid of
Why do I hide from the rain?

Sure I have my doubts
But I know it now
We are Jejune stars
So it starts again
At our childhood's end
I'll die young at heart

So I go, umbrella under my arm
Into the green of the radar
How'd it get so dark in the day?
It's just so bizarre
If it's true what we're made of
Why do I hide from the rain?

Approximate Sunlight Lyrics – Bright Eyes

Used to dream of time machines
Now it's been said we're post-everything
As a child, imagining
Neckties and coastlines
I've seen the show, man, what a sight
Drenched us in approximated sunlight
The crowd was small and mostly blind, but kind
You're too kind

Now you are how you were when you were real
Now you are how you were when you were real

There you go again, on that circular trip
Lick the solar plexus of some L.A. shaman
I'm out of breath, I better sit
Been living hard, living

All I do is follow, just follow this hollow you around

I wouldn't waste another thought
On what is fair and what is not
The Quinceañera dress she bought
Was unstitched with bullets

All the guests in the garden screamed
Women and tires squealing
Such opulence, such misery
Unwinding, unwinding

All I do is follow, just follow, just follow this hollow you around

Now you are how you were when you were real