Artist/Band:
Passion Pit
Lyrics for Song: Eyes As Candles
Lyrics for Album: Manners [2009]
My world is stirring sickly
Spits out our voices singing
"Tra la la, oh, no no"
To kingdom come so slightly
Here in the void in your place
I twitch and tweak allusion
To sit and stare so blankly
Into our hope is used up
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeing?
Where do you go when I'm around?
What have I done, what have I lost that's so defeating?
And have the nerve to wear the crown
Oh
Na na na na na na, hey hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey hey
Suddenly across the room
A smoky figure fills me full
Makes my head swell in ruin
My family kneels at the pew
They do not really believe in what you're doing
I feel you rise above me
The western landscape's towering
And from my shell of a body
the flowers blossom for picking.
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeing?
Where do you go when I'm around?
What have I done, what have I got that's so defeating?
And have the nerve to wear the crown
Oh
Na na na na na na, hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey
Na na na na na na, hey hey
I've waited and waited for someone to take it.
Don't fight it, don't bother an inch for another.
Don't listen, don't hear them, they're in this together.
I've learned well, now hear me, there's much to be fearing.
I'm used to your absence, your faceless distraction.
I've painted your patterns but found them attractive.
Now I've been leaning towards a life far more candid,
though lead through the dark with your eyes as my candles,
and your life, and my life's directions can wrangle.
And all of a sudden you left me to handle
the reasons that never forbid me to stand tall.
And somehow or somewhere I found out the secret -
To say it alive without actually breathing.
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