Let's Not Shit Ourselves (to Love and to Be Loved)-Bright Eyes

[00:59.386]Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. [01:04.166]A baby cries hard in an apartment complex, [01:09.208]as I pass in a car buried under the influence. [01:14.778]The city's driving me out of my mind. [01:18.498]I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity. [01:23.818]He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree [01:28.590]and lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity. [01:33.381]Next time he will not aim so high. [01:38.153]Yeah, next time, neither will I. [01:45.328]Now a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges. [01:50.640]Her family's reduced to names on a shopping list. [01:55.426]While, a coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix. [02:00.203]He knows there's worse things than being alone. [02:04.990]And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger. [02:09.766]I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender? [02:15.075]An ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure. [02:19.862]I do not read the reviews. [02:24.642]No, I am not singing for you. [03:18.579]Well I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well. [03:23.631]And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help. [03:28.946]With all these wishes I make, [03:31.871]I should buy something real, at least a telephone call home. [03:39.054]Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall of memory, [03:43.838]all those multiple choices I answered so quickly. [03:48.882]And got my grades back and forgot just as easily, [03:53.925]but as least I got an A. [03:58.437]And so I don't have them to blame. [04:05.611]Well I should stop pointing fingers; [04:08.528]reserve my judgment of all those public action figures, [04:13.576]the cowboy presidents. [04:15.969]So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit [04:20.751]when they've made a mistake. [04:25.807]While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen, [04:30.587]he knows he don't have to say it, [04:32.706]so it, it don't bother him. [04:35.357]"Honesty", "Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion." [04:40.417]And the approval rating's high, [04:45.454]and so someone's gonna die. [04:52.623]Well ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit. [04:57.146]They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split. [05:02.451]And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment. [05:06.965]We're still the pawns in their game. [05:12.014]As they take eye for an eye until no one can see, [05:16.530]we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history. [05:21.045]Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan [05:24.497]on the fast food marquee: [05:26.626]Red blooded, White skinned oh and the Blues. [05:30.871]Oh and the Blues, I got the Blues! That's me! That's me! [06:25.112]Well, I awoke in relief. [06:27.780]My sheets and tubes were all tangled [06:30.434]weak from whiskey and pills, [06:32.825]in a Chicago hospital. [06:35.216]And my father was there, in a chair, by the window, staring so far away. [06:45.050]I tried talking, just whispered, [06:47.171]"...so sorry...so selfish..." [06:50.091]He stopped me and said, [06:51.685]"Child I love you regardless [06:54.813]and there's nothing you could do that would ever change this. [06:59.328]I'm not angry. It happens. But you just can't do it again." [07:11.548]So now I try to keep up, I've been exchanging my currency. [07:16.615]While a million objects pass through my periphery. [07:21.669]Now I'm rubbing my eyes 'cause they're starting to bother me. [07:26.455]I've been staring too long at the screen. [07:31.236]But where was it when I first heard a sweet sound of humility? [07:36.293]It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody. [07:41.077]How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery, [07:46.117]to love and to be loved. [07:50.633]Let's just hope that is enough.