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Oh Holy Fools - The Music Of Son, Ambulance And Bright Eyes

by Bright Eyes & Son Ambulance

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1.
I want to sit with you at Brown Park We can watch kids play baseball in the field below My little boy likes the swing, the horse, and the sand I'm sorry I swung so high if I brushed your hand Just shake it off; we're vibrating on a hazel wire They never taught us how to play We learned to flow like wind in waves I want to wait for you by the poolside To tell a joke to make you laugh so long The pool was overfull; the people were diving and splashing in the water They never taught us how to swim We learned to drift on an endless sea, so easily I want to play with you at Brown Park Until the hills settle down in clean, fresh snow Then I will sleigh by you on an incline And these proud valleys turn into hills just in time They never taught us how to sing We learned to follow the drum inside They never taught us how to breathe We learned to listen for the wind outside
2.
There is a voice on the phone telling what had happened Some kind of confusion, more like a disaster It wondered how you were left unaffected but you had no knowledge The chemicals covered you So a jury was formed as more liquor was poured There is no need for conviction! They are not thirsting for justice But I slept with the lies that 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 because I am leaving on the next airplane And though I know that my actions are impossible to justify, they seem adequate to fill up my time But 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 is a film on the wall that 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 playwrights convene dispensing 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 because I am deserving it The champion of idiots Well a kid carries his Walkman on that long bus ride to Omaha I know a girl who cries when she practices violin Because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie
3.
Timing is everything You know it's beautiful Look at you You know you're beautiful Needs some attention They made me a prince Said I'm important They raised me upon stilts No one can touch me Gowns and panties Fashion magazines Stained with grape juice Torn at the seam T just want to hold you in my arms And sleep in your bed A quiver of arrows Was left in your stead The gorgeous lies that I want to believe Each one a promise of everything I need You know it's beautiful It's your own invention And I know you're beautiful
4.
I met you through a common friend in the attic of my parents house Although I didn’t know it then, I soon was finding out Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet and hold the earth in place Each time a faucet opens there are words that are spoken The water runs away and I hear your name No, nothing has changed There was this book I read and loved The story of a ship that sailed around the world and found that nothing else exists beyond his own two sails and wooden shell and what is held within All else is sure to pass, we clutch and grasp, and debate what is truly permanent But when the wind starts to shift, there is no argument So now I sing and drink and sleep on floors And I try hard not to be annoyed by all these people worrying about me So when I’m suffering through some awful drive, you occasionally cross my mind It is my hidden hope that you are still among them Well are you? Oh, you are the roots that sleep beneath my feet and hold the earth in place Each time a curtain opens the sunlight pours in and a lifetime melts away We share a name on some picturesque grave
5.
It started off as an ending I'll never see her sad eyes again Silently meeting them on the concourse, tears promised never to forget Remember that city, shining like jewelry, changing beneath us on our way back home Where the painting hangs in the living room I am still there holding my hands And I’ll never get used to it I'll never be what I want Hard as I try, I won’t be anywhere Glory in the highest Voices are praising Tongues are dividing Buildings explode and fall down like children, stand up and reach for a table's leg So far from here listening inside your head clouds are spitting dust With each lesson you're learning that you wont find truth here, but you're still driving There is no other way you could have gone I'll never be where you are I love you more than this heart could ever show, but you wont remember anything Anything Remind you of me Sleep in the quiet place where you can be alone Anything you want from me I love you more than this heart could ever show, and you will never get used to it because you won't remember anything that happened and you wont be anywhere
6.
It was in the March of the winter that I turned seventeen that I bought those pills that I thought I would need And I wrote a letter to my family It said it’s not your fault, you have been good to me It’s just lately I have been feeling like I don’t belong Like the ground is not mine to walk upon I have heard that music echo through the house where my grandmother drank by herself And I have sat watching a flower as it was withering I was embarrassed by its honesty So I would like to be remembered as a smiling face and not this fucking wreck that has taken its place So please forgive what I have done You can’t stay mad at the setting sun because we all get tired, I mean, eventually there is nothing left to do but sleep Well Spring came bearing sunlight, those persuasive rays So I gave myself a few more days My salvation it came quite suddenly when Justin spoke very plainly He said, “Now of course it’s your decision, but just so you know If you decide to leave, then soon I will follow” So wrote this for a baby who is yet to be born My brothers first child, I hope that womb is not too warm Because it is cold out here and it would be quite a shock to breathe this air To discover loss So I would like to make some changes before you arrive So when your new eyes meet mine they won’t see no lies, just love I will be pure I will be pure, like snow, like gold
7.
Girl behind the screen, the movie I seem to see is hardly there The glass contacts in my eyes make it hard to focus When you step out on the floor your dress is swaying in the piano The fabric of your invisible body is being sewn with music Kaite, will you come true for me? Come by sometime when I'm awake dream Will you step into the light from the screen so that I can make out your shape? You don't need to tell me anything, because I know what you mean Girl, open the window Let the air and the music inside your room Turn off the TV stretch your body as far as it goes The plants you nurtured are beaming and growing in gratitude The ones forgotten have withered and they're black as coal Kaite, will you come true for me? Come by sometime when I'm awake? Everyone else just lies to me; yeah they say you're a dream Will you step into the light from the screen so that I can make out your shape? You don't need to tell me anything, because I know what you mean Hold Your Tongue Don't be so quick to curse them There's a hidden beauty finding its way out of everyone Kaite, will vou come true for me7 Come by sometime when I'm awake? Everyone else just lies to me; yeah they say you're a dream Will you step into the light from the screen so that I can make out your shape? You don't need to tell me anything, because I know what you mean
8.
Love is real It is not just in novels or the movies It is fact and it is standing here right in front of you So if you’d open your eyes, oh what a sweet discovery There is hope There is joy And there is acceptance So now let all the light that collects on your plants keep you warm, make you smile And I will be there with this pen in my hand, to record, all the while you’ll be laughing so loud that the house would shake with sound And everything will be as new as the day it was found Love is real It is not just in long distance commercials Or something that you thought you felt back in high school So, I will turn black and white and become that horoscope you are reading It predicts that something good is on its way Then I will send you the world, green and blue, in a box through the mail You can open it up and hold it right in your hand and be glad that it’s there And be glad that you’re there Now you can feel all the knots in your stomach start to untie And suddenly it is not so hard to say you’re all right Love is real It is not just in poetry and stories It is truth, and it will follow you everywhere you go from now on So if you’d just cast off your doubt, then your lips would answer for you Oh my darling, when you smile it is like a song And I can hear it now

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released January 22, 2001

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