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Padraic My Prince

from Letting off the Happiness by Bright Eyes

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I had a brother once. He drowned in a bathtub before he had ever learned how to talk. And I don’t
know what his name was but my mother does. I heard her say it once, "Padraic, my prince, I have
all but died from the sheer weight of my shame. You cried but no one came and the water filled
your tiny lungs. Appear, my dear, and sing to me. It was six years ago today that we laid you in
your grave, your sweet young skin was shining then too." And so tonight to celebrate I will poison
myself. Another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning. So I close the door and rest
my head on the tile floor, sickness and sleep turning me cold. I am still not sure, is there some
better place I should be heading towards? Where the selfishly sick and self absorbed are
welcome. I saw the future once. I was drunk in a phone booth. My eyes were wet and red but I
could not tell what was said. And through the screams of the traffic voiced carried saying I am
sorry. On a day so gray its black inside watching churches on TV. In a coma you don’t dream
you just hope that someone sits with you. Babies turn blue when they are ignored like the sky on
summer days, before you turn and walk away it has changed you. So tonight to compensate I will
poison myself another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning.

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from Letting off the Happiness, released November 2, 1998

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Bright Eyes are the Omaha, Nebraska based band consisting of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, and Nathaniel Walcott.

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