Bright Eyes Center Of The World Lyrics

Center Of The World Lyrics

At the center of the world 
There is a statue of a girl.  
She is standing
near a well with a bucket bare and dry.  
I went and looked her in the eyes

And she turned me into sand.  
This clumsy form that I despise 
It
scattered easy in her hand.  
And came to rest upon a beach, 
With a
million others there.  
We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out 
So
that we could disappear into the endlessness of blue.
Into the horror of the
truth.  
You see, we are far less than we knew.  
Yeah, we are far less
than we knew.
But we knew what we could taste.  
Girls found honey to
drench our hands.  
The men cut marble to mark our graves.  
Said that we
will need something to remind us of all the 
Sweetness that has passed
through us (fresh sangria and lemon tea).  
The priests dressed children for
a choir (white-robed small voices praise Him) 
But found no joy in what was
sung.  
The funeral had begun.
In the middle of the day 
When you
drive home to your place 
From that job that 
Makes you sleep back 
To
the thoughts that keep you awake 
Long after night has come to claim 
Any
light that still remains in the corner of the frame
That you put around her
face.  
Two pills just weren’t enough.  
The alarm clock is going
off but you are not waking up.  
This isn’t happening.  
It is.