The National - Sleep Well Beast (September 8, 2017) Album • Page 11

Can someone send a runner
Through the weather that I'm under
For the feeling that I lost today?

 

My real favorite tho:

I am good I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller

I need my girl

 

I'm gonna join the Pink Rabbits club with:

I was solid gold
I was in the fight
I was coming back from what seemed like a ruin
I couldn't see you coming so far
I just turn around and there you are

That one kills me.

 

I'm so surprised you want to dance with me now
I was just getting used to living life without you around
I'm so surprised you want to dance with me now
You always said I held you way too high off the ground

 

I was literally just about to post this one

 

I'm a confident liar
Had my head in the oven so you'd know where I'll be
I'll try to be more romantic
I want to believe in everything you believe
But I was less than amazing
Do not know what all the troubles are for
Fall asleep in your branches
You're the only thing I ever want anymore

 

Do not know what's wrong with me
Sours in the cup
When I walk into a room
I do not light it up
Fuck

 

Is it weird to be back in the south?
And can they even tell
That the city girl was ever there
Or anywhere?

I'm having trouble inside my skin
I try to keep my skeletons in

 

Another un-innocent, elegant fall into the un-magnificent lives of adults

 

With my kid on my shoulders I try
Not to hurt anybody I like
But I don't have the drugs to sort
I don't have the drugs to sort it out
Sort it out

 

"Everything I love gets lost in drawers" (Slow Show)

this line definitely sums up the majority of my life. i've always put more interest, love and adoration in actual objects than people so when i first heard this it was a major oh shit! moment to find something so relatable to such a personal, unusual topic

 

I'm on the verge of tears rn I need to go to bed

 

Hey Joe, sorry I hurt you but, they say love is a virtue, don't they?

 

I won't be vacant anymore

 

a real heart breaker:

"I don't know why we had to lose, the ones who took so little space"

 

darlin', can you tie my string
killers are callin' on me

my angel face is fallin'
feathers are fallin' on my feet

 

You must be somewhere in London
You must be loving your life in the rain
You must be somewhere in London
Walking Abbey Lane

I dont even think to make corrections

Famous angels never come through England
England gets the ones you never need

 

I have only two emotions
Careful fear and dead devotion

 

make up something to believe
in your heart of hearts
so you have something to wear
on your sleeve of sleeves
so you swear you just saw a feathery woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees

 

I put on an argyle sweater and put on a smile
I don't know how to do this
I'm so sorry for everything

 

Oh, don't tell anyone I'm here
I got Tylenol and beer
I was thinking that you'd call somebody
Closer to you
Oh, but your love is such a swamp
You're the only thing I want
And I said I wouldn't cry about it

 

I gave my heart to the army
The only sentimental thing I could think of
Cousins and colors somewhere over seas
But itll take a better war to kill a college man like me

 

Speaking of Lemonworld ive always thought the lyric "Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth and we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party" was really bizarre and nonsensical but it just donned on me that Matts probably referring to waterboarding given how the opening lines paint the image of a man guilty that those less well of than him have enlisted in the army. Pretty neat.

 

this is the best thread right now tbh

 

because im in it, i know. i get that a lot