Let's Not Shit Ourselves [To Love And Be Loved] lyrics

Well the animals laugh

From the dark of the wilderness

A baby cries hard

In an apartment complex

As I pass in a car

Buried under the influence

The cities driving me out

of my mind

I've seen a child he's caught

In the sad trap of gravity

He falls from the lowest

Branch of the apple tree

And lands in the grass

And weeps for his dignity

Next time he will not aim so high

Yeah, next time neither will I

Now, a mother takes loans out

Sends her kids off to colleges

Her family's reduced

To names on a shopping list

While a coroner kneels

Beneath the great wooden crucifix

He knows there's worse things than being

Alone.

And so I've learned to retreat

At the first sign of danger

I mean, why wait around if

It's just to surrender

And ambition I've found

Can lead only to failure

I do not read the reviews

No I am not singing for you

(Woo)

Well I stood droppin' a coin

Into the pit of a well

And I would throw my whole billfold

If I thought it would help

With all these wishes I make

I should buy something real

At least a telephone

Call home

Well my teachers they built

This retaining wall of memory

All those multiple choices

I answered so quickly

And got my grades back

And forgot just as easily

But at least I got an A

And so I don't have them to blame

Well I should stop pointing fingers

Reserve my judgment

Of all those public action figures

And cowboy presidents

So loud behind the bull-horns

So proud they can't admit

When they've made a mistake

While poison ink spews

From a speech writers pen

He knows he don't have to say it

So it don't bother him

Honesty accuracy

It's just popular opinion

And the approval ratings high

And so someone's gonna die

Well ABC NBC CBS bullshit

They give us fact or fiction

I guess an even split

And each new act of war's tonight's entertainment

We're still the pawns in their game

As they take eye for an eye

Until no one can see

We must stumble blindly forward

Repeating history

Well I guess we all fit into that slogan

On your fast food marquee

Red blooded white skinned and oh the blues

Oh and the blues I got the blues that's me

Well I awoke in relief

My sheets and tubes were all tangled

Weak from whiskey and pills

In a Chicago hospital

And my father was there

In a chair by the window

Starin' so far away

I tried talking just whispered

So sorry so selfish

He stopped me and said

Child, I love you regardless

There nothing you could do

That would ever change this

I'm not angry, it happens

But you just can't do it again

And so now I try to keep up

I been exchanging my currency

While a million objects

Pass though my periphery

Now I'm rubbin' my eyes

'Cause they're starting to bother me

I been staring too long at the screen

But where was it when I first heard

That sweet sound of humility

It came to my ears in the

Goddamned loveliest melody

How grateful I was then

To be part of the mystery

To love and to be loved

Lets just hope that is enough

• Artist:Bright Eyes
• Album:Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground