Bright Eyes Going For The Gold Lyrics

Going For The Gold Lyrics

There's a voice on the phone 

telling what had happened

some kind of confusion

more like a disaster

and it wondered how you were left unaffected

but you had no knowledge

no the chemicals covered you

and so a jury was formed 

as more liquor was poured

no need for conviction

they're not thirsting for justice

butI slept with the lies 

I keep inside my head

I found out I was guilty

I found out I was guilty

but I won't be around for the sentencing

cause I'm leaving

on the next airplane

and though I know that my actions are impossible to justify

they seem adequite to fill up my time 

and if I could talk to myself like I was someone else

then maybe I could take your advice

and I wouldn't act like such an asshole all the time



there's a film on the wall 

makes the people look small

who are sitting beside it 

all consumed in the drama

they must return to their lives

once the hero has died

they will drive to the office

stopping somewhere for coffee

where the folk singers, poets, and playwrites convene

dispinsing their wisdom

oh dear amateur orator

they will detail their pain 

in some standard refrain

they will recite their sadness

like it's some kind of contest

well if it is

I think I am winning it

all beaming with confidence

as I make my final lap

the gold medal gleams

so hang it around my neck

cause I am deserving it

the champion of idiots



but a kid carries his Walkman on that long bus ride to omaha

I know a girl who cries when she practices violin

cause each note sounds so pure

it just cuts into her

and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes

now to me everything else it just sounds like a lie.