Bright Eyes Lets Not Shit Ourselves Lyrics

Lets Not Shit Ourselves Lyrics

Here we go

Can I get a goddamn timpany roll to start this goddamn song?

Tonight, it is a goddamn song

For all you goddamn people



Well, the animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness

A baby cries hard in an apartment complex

As I pass in a car buried under the influence

The city's driving me out of my mind



I've seen a child, he's caught in the sad trap of gravity

He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree

And lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity

Next time he will not aim so high, yeah, next time neither will I



Now, a mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges

Her family's reduced to names on a shoppin' list

While a coroner kneels beneath a great wooden crucifix

He knows there's worse things than bein' alone



And so I've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger

I mean, why wait around, if it's just to surrender?

An ambition, I've found, can lead only to failure

I do not read the reviews, no, I am not singin' for you



Well, I stood droppin' a coin into the pit of a well

And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help

With all these wishes I make, I should buy somethin' real

At least a telephone call home



Well, my teachers, they built this retaining wall memory

All those multiple choices I answered so quickly

And got my grades back and forgot just as easily

But at least I got an A and so I don't have them to blame



Well, I should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgment

Of all those public action figures, the cowboy presidents

So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can't admit

When they've made a mistake



While poison ink spews from a speechwriter's pen

He knows he don't have to say it, so it, it don't bother him

'Honesty, accuracy is just popular opinion

And the approval rating's high and so someone's gonna die



Well, ABC, NBC, CBS, bullshit

They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split

And each new act of war is tonight's entertainment

We're still the pawns in their game



As they take eye for an eye until no one can see

We must stumble blindly forward, repeatin' history

Well, I guess we all fit into your slogan on that fast food marquee

Red-blooded, white-skinned, oh and the Blues, oh and the Blues

I got the Blues, that's me, that's me



Well, I awoke in relief, my sheets and tubes were all tangled

Weak from whiskey and pills in a Chicago hospital

And my father was there in a chair by the window

Starin' so far away



I tried talking, just whispered, "So sorry, so selfish"

He stopped me and said, "Child, I love you regardless

And there is nothing you could do that would ever change this

I'm not angry, it happens, but you just can't do it again"



And so now I try to keep up, I've been exchangin' my currency

While a million objects pass through my periphery

Now I'm rubbin' my eyes 'cause they're startin' to bother me

I've been starin' too long at the screen



But where was it when I first heard that sweet sound of humility?

It came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody

How grateful I was then to be part of the mystery

To love and to be loved, let's just hope that is enough