Artist/Band:
Bright Eyes
Lyrics for Song: Hit the Switch
Lyrics for Album: Digital Ash in a Digital Urn [2005]
I'm staring out into that vacuum again,
From the back porch of my mind.
The only thing that's alive.
I'm all there is.
And I start attacking my vodka.
Stab the ice with my straw.
My eyes have turned red as stoplights.
You seem ready to walk.
You know i'll call you eventually.
When I wanna talk.
Till then you're invisible.
'Cause there's this switch that gets hit,
And it all stops making sense,
In the middle of drinks, maybe the 5th or the 6th.
I'm completely alone at a table of friends.
I feel nothing for them.
I feel nothing.
Nothing.
Well, I need a break from the city again.
I think I'll ship myself back west.
I got a friend there, she says "Hey, any time."
Unless that offer's expired, I have been less than frequent.
She's under no obligation to indulge every whim,
And I'm so ungrateful, I take, she gives and forgives.
And I keep forgetting it.
And each morning she wakes with a dream to,
Describe, something lovely that bloomed,
In her beautiful mind.
I said "I'll trade you one for two nightmares of mine.
I have some where I die.
I have some where we all die."
I'm thinking of quitting drinking again.
I know I said that a couple of times,
And I'm always changing my mind.
Well I guess I am.
But there's this burn in my stomach,
And there's this pain in my side.
And when I kneel at the toilet,
And the morning's clean light,
Pours in through the window.
Sometimes I pray I don't die.
I'm a goddamn hypocrite.
But the night rolls around and it all starts making sense.
There's no right way or wrong way.
You just have to live.
So I do what I do,
And at least I exist.
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?
Mean more?
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