I Believe in Symmetry-Bright Eyes

[00:00.218]Some plans were made and rice was thrown [00:02.888]A house was built, a baby born [00:05.839]How time can move both fast and slow amazes me [00:11.968]And so I raise my glass to symmetry [00:14.918]To the second hand and its accuracy [00:17.862]To the actual size of everything [00:21.060]The desert is the sand [00:23.717]You can't hold it in your hand [00:26.644]It won't bow to your demands [00:29.564]There's no difference you can make [00:33.022]There's no difference you can make [00:35.425]And if it seems like an accident [00:38.369]A collage of senselessness [00:41.825]You aren't looking hard enough [00:44.790]I wasn't looking hard enough at it [01:03.153]An argument for consciousness [01:06.085]The instinct of the blind insect [01:09.015]Who makes love to the flowerbed [01:12.220]And dies in the first freeze [01:15.134]Oh, I want to learn such simple things [01:18.066]No politics, no history [01:20.999]Till what I want and what I need [01:23.922]Can finally be the same [01:26.591]I just got myself to blame [01:29.499]Leave everything up to fate [01:32.437]When there's choices I could make [01:35.891]When there's choices I could make [01:38.289]Now my heart needs a polygraph [01:41.246]Always so eager to pack my bags [01:44.962]When I really wanna to stay [01:47.890]When I really wanna to stay [01:51.084]When I wanna stay (when I wanna stay) [01:53.743]When I wanna stay (when I wanna stay) [01:56.679]When I wanna stay (when I wanna stay) [01:59.908]When I wanna stay (when I wanna stay) [02:29.982]The arc of time, the stench of sex [02:32.948]The innocence you can't protect [02:35.880]Each quarter note, each marble step [02:38.835]Walk up and down that lonely treble clef [02:43.119]Each wanting the next one [02:46.033]Each wanting the next one to arrive [02:49.000]Each wanting the next one [02:51.696]Each wanting the next one to arrive [02:53.842]An argument for consciousness [02:56.796]The instinct of the blind insect [02:59.977]Who never thinks not to accept its fate [03:03.447]That's faith, there's happiness in death [03:06.898]You give to the next one [03:09.857]You give to the next on down the line [03:13.046]You give to the next one [03:15.715]You give to the next on down the line [03:18.112]The levity of longing that [03:21.036]Distills each dream inside my head [03:23.974]By morning watered down forget [03:26.925]On silver stars I wish and wish and wish [03:30.650]From one to the next one [03:33.831]From one to the next right down the line [03:36.757]From one to the next one [03:39.935]From one to the next right down the line [03:55.404]You give to the next one [03:58.863]You give to the next on down the line [04:00.736]You give to the next one [04:03.911]You give to the next on down the line