Bright Eyes A Line Allows Progress A Circle Does Not Lyrics

A Line Allows Progress A Circle Does Not Lyrics

Sitting around, no work today.
Try pacing to keep awake.
Laying around, no
school today.
Just drink until the clock has circled all the way.

It's
late afternoon, as you walk through the rooms
of a house that is
quiet
except for unanswered telephones.
You stand near the sink,
you
mix up a drink.
You think you don't want to pass out
where your roommates
could find you again.
Stumble 'round the neighboorhod, nothing to
do.
You're always looking for something
to sniff smoke or
swallow.
Calling over next door, see what they've got.
But you would
settle for anything
that would make your brain slow down or
stop this
circle of thoughts you chase
before they catch back up with you.
And your
parents notice your thinning face,
All the weight you've lost,
All the
weight youre losing.
You said "I'm done feeling like a skeleton,
no more
sleep walking dead."
You're going to wake from this coma.
You're going to
crawl from this bed you've made.
Stop counting on the camera
that hangs
around your neck,
cause it will never remember what you choose to
forget.

And you try to find one source of light,
try to name one
thing you like.
You used to have such a longer list,
And light, you never
had to look for it.

But now it's so easy, it's so easy to--
it's so
easy, it's so easy to
second guess everything you do
until all you want,
all you want is to
finish this half empty glass
before the ice all melts
away.
This feeling always used to pass,
seems like it's every
day
seems like it's every night now.