Bright Eyes

[fox69]

"Down In A Rabbit Hole"

"Down In A Rabbit Hole"


I heard you fell into a rabbit hole
Covered yourself up in snow
Baby tell me where'd you go for days and days
Did they make you stay up all night
Did they paint your face that pasty white
You're thirsty but your appetite is chased away
The sun turns us to stone
It's a cloudy day but we still can't go
Up and out that cellar door
Till we see the moon, we're invisible
No one ever takes the garbage out
The neighbor kid gets dared to touch the house
He runs back only to announce there's no one home
Cause we paint the foil with the flame
Smell of soda, taste butaine
For every fear that can't be named to calm you down
Your heart starts skipping steps
So you're farther gone
Than you might expect
If your thoughts should turn to death
Gotta stomp them out like a cigarette

 

[fox69]

"Drunk Kid Catholic"

"Drunk Kid Catholic"


The drunk kids, the catholics
They're all about the same
They're waiting for something
Hoping to be saved
Well I have been happy the past couple days
Just thinking of the women who've taken your place
And every night I think I certaintly won't ever sleep sober or alone
And then suddenly it occurs to me
I've slept alone before you
And so I pour myself the stiffest drink my stomach can stand
And convince myself to lay back down again
I'm gonna lay back down, I'm gonna lay back down again
The drunk kids, the catholics
They're all about the same
They're waiting for something
Hoping to be saved
The drunk kids, the catholics
They're all about the same
They're waiting for something
Hoping to be saved
The drunk kids, the catholics
They're all about the same
They're waiting for something
Hoping to be saved
They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I'm working all weekend
I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I'm working all weekend
I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I'm working all weekend
I need to get paid
They crawl from the oceans
To paint in the caves
But I'm working all weekend
I need to get paid

 

[fox69]

"Easy/Lucky/Free"

"Easy/Lucky/Free"


Did it all get real, I guess it's real enough
They got refrigerators full of blood
Another century spent pointing guns
At anything that moves
Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot
My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts
I never really dreamed of heaven much
Until we put him in the ground
But it's all I'm doing now
Listening for patterns in the sound
Of an endless static sea
But once the satellite's deceased
It blows like garbage through the streets
Of the night sky to infinity
But don't you weep (don't you weep for them)
There is nothing as lucky
Don't you weep
There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

Don't be a criminal in this police state
You better shop and eat and procreate
You got vacation days then you might escape
To a condo on the coast
I set my watch to the atomic clock
I hear the crowd count down 'til the bomb gets dropped
I always figured that there'd be time enough
I never let it get me down
But I can't help it now
Looking for faces in the clouds
I got some friends I barely see
But we're all planning to meet
We'll lay in bags as dead as leaves
All together for eternity
But don't you weep
There is no one as lucky
Honey, don't you weep
There is nothing as lucky, as easy, or free

 

[fox69]

"Emily, Sing Something Sweet"

"Emily, Sing Something Sweet"


Emily, sing somethin sweet for me
I want to feel the warmth inside your heart.

Emily, sing somethin sweet for me
I need to hear those words out of your mouth.

Emily, sing somethin please
I want to taste life behind your eyes.

 

[fox69]

"Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen"

"Empty Canyon, Empty Canteen"


Don't waste the water, don't drink it now.
'Cause this desert keeps growing, and we might never get out.
Besides, we're not even moving, we're just standing around.
But I must admit that when it comes to this, I'm as scared as the rest,
Feels like something's hunting me down.

It'll end up to be like the films that you've seen,
Where they they bury the bones that will never be found,
But I do, but I do, but I do,...

 

[fox69]

"Endless Entertainment"

"Endless Entertainment"


The serotonin's rushing, I'm coughing
Well, I kinda caught the blues
But you won't catch me complaining
To the super or the moon
Because the carrot's gonna dangle
Until the diamond is appraised
And all the talk made me feel rich baby
But, tell me, who is gonna pay
For the braces to make straight,
All that Colgate
Keep my white teeth innocence
My smile was in sad shape
All that dead weight
I got tired of carrying
And it's got me looking for a friend
Or a crutch I can depend upon

Well there's endless entertainment
In thinking the world is gonna end
And I live some nights convinced of it
But I keep waking up again
With my girl wrapped 'round my body
And a towel wrapped 'round my head
She says, "You passed out in the bathtub angel
I thought that you were dead
Don't die on me
Don't tread on me
My love, my love is not the enemy
And you don't have to be
No one's biography
They'll try to write you down
And hope you go crazy."

So don't, no don't
Don't fall for that Christ bait
It's about as passé
As rock star arrogance
Tomorrow's a new day
But it's that same face
And you'll be wearing it

Now you don't have to be content
But you do have to get on with it

 

[fox69]

"Entry Way Song"

"Entry Way Song"


Last saturday I stood in your entry way
That place where we used to wait
For cars to carry us away
Like once in this storm, they drove me and justin home
The music was just being born
It was all I was longing for

Now im on a plane
Off singin my songs again, oh please dont think ill of it
Cause its the reason I exists
But you, youre the crutch of a cripple
You're the calm of a conscience
You're the peace that I have found
When all these voices talk too loud you are quietly reassuring me
With the hands of a healer
And the tongue of a teacher
Its your voice that I have known
To be the first one on the phone
Yeah, you ran all the lights to the hospital

So don't you say to me
That life's a trap
The future is nothing but a tragedy
'Cos I'll be out of that window
Yeah, I'll start wishing to die again
Just say we're not walking backwards, kid
And show me to the door
And I'll walk behind
Out into the hot sunlight
Where the world's very much alive
Even when I close my eyes

Well, should I admit
That my promise is counterfeit
That I'm careless and childish
And that's all I can hope to be
And would you concede
That I think only of myself
I refuse everybody's help
Who has been reaching out for me
Well, you reach with the soul of a sailor
And the swing of a miner
You have cleared the rock away
Leaving gold there in its place
And it is more than anyone could claim
Oh, with the sense of a banker
And with the touch of a tailor
You saved this life for me
And you have sown it to beauty
And I am grateful now and I will always be

So would you sing with me
The song is all I know
Some truths are told now only in a melody
So I've been writing a new one
Yeah, I've been taking my time with it
It's gonna be so perfect
It's gonna hold all of us inside of it
You will see
If you just add your harmony
I think it would be complete
And be worthy of singing
Becomes a symphony

Yeah, you're the cool of the water
You're the start of the summer
Keep me still like a anchor
In a storm you're the cellar
When I'm heavy with worry make me light as a feather
When I'm deafened by anger you're the song I remember
With the grace of a dancer and the strength of a pillar
When I'm starving to suffer you just fill me with laughter
You're a poet
And a saint
You are the only one I choose to imitate
Oh, like the love of a father through the eye of a camera
It's this picture I have seen
We're on a sloping hill of green
And you are walking there beside me

 

[fox69]

"Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor"

"Exaltation On A Cool Kitchen Floor"


I wanted to come visit you
Waiting in the spring time
When the leaves change

The ground outside is begging for the
Newness that surrounds us
As we dance back through the screen door
In the sunlight of mid-April.
But the glow won't stop the smiles
That are spreading on our faces
As we fall down on the kitchen floor

And she's laughing about something
That she had heard earlier and I
Can't help noticing that she
Is sitting closer to me
Than she ever has before...

 

[fox69]

"Falling Out Of Love At This Volume"

"Falling Out Of Love At This Volume"


Tell me what you wanted to hear
Let me do the right thing
Let me do the wrong thing
And if it's ever this clear
I will only say it once
Just let me turn the amps way up
So you can hear nothing
And if I die tonight then I guess I die tonight
Let me go on
Just say what you wanted to say
I cannot stand these talks dear
They only get us nowhere
It's never resolved
We only run around
You wanna tell me anyone could be just like me
If it's a different time and a different place to be
You would go on

 

[fox69]

"False Advertising"

"False Advertising"


On a string I was held.
The way that I move, can you tell?
My actions are orchestrated from above.
So I swing and I sway.
Wave my hand. Kick my leg.
And it is always right with the music.
"Until all that swaying starts to make you sick"
For a song I was bought.
Now I lie when I talk with a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage, I was pushed with my sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your money. Now.
"We used to think that sound was something pure"
If I could act like this was my real life and not some cage where I've been placed,
then, I could tell you the truth like I used to and not be afraid of sounding fake.
Now all that anyone is listening for are the mistakes.
In a house, by myself, I hear the ice start to melt and watch rooftops weep for the sunlight.
And I know what must change. Fuck my face. Fuck my name.
They are brief and false advertisements for a soul I don't have.
Something true I have lacked and spent my whole life trying to make up for.
But I found in a song and in the people I love.
They will lift me up out of darkness.
Now my door stands open. I am inviting everyone in.
We're gonna laugh, we're gonna drink until the morning comes.
That is what we are going to do.