Method Acting-Bright Eyes

[00:01.472] [Verse 1] [00:04.548] There is no beginning to the story [00:06.845] A bookshelf sinks into the sand [00:09.530] And a language learned and forgot, in turn [00:11.770] Is studied once again [00:14.079] It's a shocking bit of footage [00:16.018] Viewed from a shitty TV screen [00:18.974] You can squint at it through snowy static [00:22.010] To make out the meaning [00:23.961] And just keep on stretching the antenna [00:26.215] Hoping that it will come clear [00:28.722] We need some reception, a higher message [00:31.277] Tell us what to fear [00:33.144] Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings [00:37.591] It's alive with such possibilities [00:42.020] All I know is I feel better when I sing [00:47.390] Burdens are lifted from me, that's my voice rising [01:09.865] So Michael, please keep the tape rolling [01:12.244] Boys keep strumming those guitars [01:14.587] We need a record of our failures [01:16.617] Yes, we must document our love [01:18.782] I've sat too long in my silence [01:21.238] Have grown too old in my pain [01:23.694] To shed this skin, be born again [01:26.053] It starts with an ending [01:27.971] So thank you friends for the time we shared [01:32.664] My love stays with you like sunlight and air [01:37.159] Oh I truly wish I could keep hanging around here [01:42.873] but my joy is covering me, soon I will disappear [02:06.401] We're not a movie, no private screening [02:10.932] This method acting, well, I call that living, yeah [02:15.682] It's like a fountain, a door has been opened [02:20.120] We got a problem with no solution [02:23.760] But to love, to love and to be loved [02:28.983] So, I've made peace with the falling leaves [02:33.270] I see their same fate in my own body [02:37.678] I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream [02:43.621] And returned to that which gave birth to me [03:02.158] And the story goes, and the story goes [03:06.108] And it goes on and on and on and on [03:08.582] It's going on and on and on and on (x6)