Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything - (with Jim James) lyrics
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[Speaking] So there was this woman And she was , uh, on an airplane And she was flying to meet her fiancé Sailing high above the largest ocean on The, the planet earth. And she was seated next to this man. Who, ya know? She had tried to start Conversations, the only, really the only thing she Had heard him say is to order his bloody marry And, and she’s sitting there and she’s reading This really arduous magazine article about a 3rd world Country that she couldn’t even pronounce the name of. She’s feeling; very bored and very despondent and; And then uh, suddenly there was this huge mechanical Failure and one of the engines gave out. And they just Started falling, thirty thousand feet, the uh, pilot’s On the microphone and he’s saying: “im sorry im sorry . Oh my god†And apologizing and she looks at the man and says [guitar starts] “where are we going?†and uh he looks at her and he says “we’re going to a party, it’s a birthday party, it's your birthday party. Happy birthday darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.†And then uh, he starts humming this little tune, and it kinda goes like this Uh 1, 2, uh 1 2 3 4 We must talk in every telephone, get eaten off the web We must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read And in the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair We must stare, we must stare, we must stare We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell And in the ear of every anarchist who sleeps but doesn't dream We must sing, we must sing, we must sing And it'll go like this: While my mother waters plants, my father loads his gun He says death will give us back to god just like setting sun Is returned to the lonesome ocean And then they splashed into the deep blue sea Oh it was a wonderful splash We must blend into the choir, singing static with the whole You must memorize my numbers and deny we have a soul And in endless race from property and privilege to be won We must run, we must run, we must run We must hang up in the belfry where the bats in moonlight laugh Me must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past And in the caverns of tomorrow with only our flashlights and our love We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge And then when we get down there, Way down to the very bottom of Everything and then we'll see it Oh we'll see we'll see it we'll see it- All my morning is coming fast The whole world is waking up Of the city buses swimming past I'm happy just because I've found out I am really no one