Bright Eyes Trees Get Wheeled Away Lyrics

Trees Get Wheeled Away Lyrics

Anchormen spike their blood, wear masks of mud

Cucumbers cut to fit their eyes

And so no one would know how tired they've grown

Of talking and telling their lies



While your TV's change stations, scroll messages

Victims and Christians both drinking blood

And they'll pray for the destruction of all hatred

More often, just those with hate for us



'Cause it hurts when you discover one's worse and one's better

To suffer or cause others to

And you can live by your conscience, now guilt is a concept

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There's a virgin in my bed

And she's taking off her dress

And I'm not sure what I am gonna do



There's a song stuck in my head

And I can't help singing it

Oh, how I hope my singing pleases you

'Cause this is not who I've become but what you make me into



Oh, we got no health insurance, no cellular service

No disease, they can't cure

But we need more money to burn

So each person must learn the dollar amount they are worth



And those pills make me dizzy forgetting my body

I watch as it walks away

And I just keep drinking the poison and smoking the cartons

A pack and a half a day



So when time comes to claim me

My friends and my family will gather around my grave

And they'll believe that they knew me

And loved me and missed me, and all call me by my name



So imagine what you want

And then hold on to that thought

'Cause that's as close as it will ever come



And believe you're where you are

Keep acting out the part

But at the end of the day, the trees all get wheeled away

And you'll be standing alone in a blank, blank space



So believe you're who you are and stay in character

But at the end of the play, the audience walks away

And I'll be shivering cold on a well lit stage