Bright Eyes Let`s Not Shit Ourselves (to Love And Be Loved) Lyrics

Let`s Not Shit Ourselves (to Love And Be Loved) Lyrics

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 have 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 is reduced to names on a shopping list. Meanwhile, a
coroner kneels beneath a great, wooden crucifix. He know's there's worse things
than being alone. I have learned to retreat at the first sign of danger. I mean,
why wait around, if it's just to surrender? Ambition, I have found, can lead
only to failure. I do not read the reviews. No, I am not singing for you. 



Well, I stood dropping 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 something 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 I 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 president.
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 don't bother him. "Honesty"
"Accuracy" is just "Popular Opinion." And the approval
rating is high, so someone's gonna die. 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, repeating history. Well,
I guess we all fit into your slogan on the 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, staring 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." So now I try to
keep up, I have been exchanging my currency. While a million objects pass
through my periphery. Now I am rubbing my eyes because they are starting to
bother me. I have been staring too long at the screen. But where was it when I
first heard the sweet sound of humilty? 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.