The Celibate Life

The Shins · Oh, Inverted World [2001]

the dust from a four-day affiar is now landing

all over the floor and your brown legs

the gold-plated legs of my rival

whose eyes had no reason to fall



you led no clelibate life no skirt while chemicals danced on your head

you stole the keys to this ride and your fables are falling tonight



because of your struggle to make them

their taste for your past time is fading

remember the girls in the middle are always the first to fall off



you'll learn to live like a mouse,

searching the cracks in the floor to remember

all of the dregs in the crowd you barely recall



you led no clelibate life no skirt while chemicals danced on your head

you stole the keys to this ride and your fables are falling tonight