Bright Eyes Cartoon Blues Lyrics

Cartoon Blues Lyrics

I listened to a lecture of nonsense 'til dawn

By a plagiary poet with dark glasses on

He said, "How did you ever dream up that song

The one where the baby dies?"



I said "I'll tell you the secret, which one's your good ear?

Yeah, people are made up of water and fear

If there weren't women present we wouldn't be here

So let's make like we're friends"



And the pot turned to powder and soured the mood

And the people I'd come with were gone from the room

So I asked like a child, "May I be excused?"

And disobeyed them all



Into that late night latrine rain soaking through my shoes

I tried walking backwards to get less confused

Working off the theory I could never prove

That it was life itself to blame



In time we'll win the world like a failed revolution

A tumor we could not remove

An old friend, a constant the blues



Now, my days are distractions sit wringing my hands

Solitaire, crosswords and films on demand

When you turn from a cartoon back into a man

You start to smell that human smell



And so I sleep with the fan on to drown out the street

And the noise rising up from the bar underneath

But for that inconvenience all my drinks are free

So I guess it's just as well



Why do I envy the ending right from the start

Just get it together to take it apart

Watching the horse as it follows the cart

I sweep up my broken spell



And I felt something changing the world

Like a new constitution

A thief I would have to pursue

At all times, at all costs the truth