Don't Swallow the Cap - The National

Here I make new meaning over these waters Consumed and, cut the clear wind as I soar To flap all wings as fast as I can take To my city there, let's go Soon, beyond this ocean Yes, I'm a small little swallow, arriving upon a city There is something that I saw That's full of joy, I hear a few voices And sounds of worry and sorrow of other friends' voices We all have many different ways to be living lives we are in Wanting to just protect without a time of noticing Why are we inflicting this pain on one another Under the same sky we live in Brought to the world, every tall and small and all Many lives of color variety, together, we keep living With everyone, we people and all the plants, every bird and flower Shoulder to shoulder just look around But in the world, things we're always reaching for And the new futures we're looking for are all such different tones If we're able to keep going hand in hand We will be laughing and living together with a smile I'm thinking of what I can do to make it better now Back on the other side of fortune that's taken up by somebody Friends have lost locations, a place to live and come home to Only thing he wanted was to harmoniously Be living here together and just be Could not see anything, overtaken by sorrow Shadows almost here to stain darker colors in my soul When you start to forgive, and accept our differences We begin to make connection once again What could it be that we can be doing now Even if we couldn't change it all by doing everything we can Let it be known, to somebody's day, go on Bring a little bit of vibrancy in color to their world We know it's far from a precious stone so bright It's nothing like any fine sheet of gold But just as how we see, if we could make our world Start overflowing with a subtle little piece of love Take notice what surrounds, some changes you will see Under the same sky we live in, one day it'll show So goes the story of small and little me holding a big dream

Burn-marks on my chest so the arrows won't miss Surrounded by the cupid of Lucifer And she, who stands on his left side With her burning spears Straight into the heart, my love Straight into the heart Ten silver bullets, but I won't shed a tear for you Won't cry for mercy, none from you They always find you in the shadows For my heart is a light house of a burning flame Straight into the heart, my love Straight into the heart Would have followed you down to the depths of hell And saved you from these flames Built a bridge over this dark world That we have created Blessed be the ones who do not feel For you the heavens are open Such is the nature of the heartless And for us who tread in the dark The road goes on forever From the sunrise on to sunset And all through the night The serpent's words, I remember well And the venom she spat Unholy offering of fire and lust Was a road straight to hell Blessed be the ones who do not feel For you the heavens are open Such is the nature of the heartless And for us who tread in the dark The road goes on forever From the sunrise on to sunset And all through the night Ghosts and owls wrapped around my neck She led me too far this time There's no heaven to help us now No repent Woman is a creator Man is a destroyer Or so I thought The judgment of our sins fell upon us From the ivory garden Of the gods To the worms of the earth To the worms of the earth Blessed be the ones who do not feel For you the heavens are open Such is the nature of the heartless And for us who tread in the dark The road goes on forever From the sunrise on to sunset And all through the night

So paint your room with pastel colors Before the sun fades us out of style Or the wallpaper swallows us whole And the flowers on your dress make me blue So why don't you open up the windows that save you And let your wide eyes wash all over me Bring me to my knees And blow me through the breeze Cause I've gotta sin to feel you And you gotta weep before I can hear you And honey i don't want to hurt you But my heart's getting soft and my hands are so weak And I don't know where I've been but I'm sure you'll tell me The symphony of birds sing softly Spreading lies that you used to sing to me baby I wrote your name in dust on the night stand And I booked that flight for Memphis Tennessee

Will you die in misery? Wash over me, wash over me Will you die of a broken heart? Tears you apart, it tears you apart Will you die in misery? Rain over me, rain over me Can you die of a broken soul? Leave you in woe, carved in your soul You cry through the fires of misery! Misery! Bleed dry through the nights of misery! Misery! Can you die in misery? Wash over me, wash over me Will you die tied in your chains? And now it rains, oh how it rains You drag your heart behind like a wounded kill Can you dream, can you breathe with a broken will? You cry through the fires of misery! Misery! Bleed dry through the nights of misery! Misery! Will you die in misery? Wash over me, wash over me Will you die of a broken soul? Leaves you in woe, carved in your soul, deep in your soul

Where do we go from here? When these words have been unspoken. We carry this burden through the gentle summer rain. The convoy is still, still and weeping, Yet I don't feel anything, but these walls around. "And the candles on cathedral walls Chase the weak light under the saints eyes, Over you, and your shattered words for the ones you lost. In your mourning you're alone, so alone." This silence speaks a million words, Words of comfort so shallow. How I wish even for one tear, But for my heart it is too late. Where do I go when the sorrow turns to hate. Where do I go from here? The guardian angels quiet and near, Slowly turning away, for hell is surely here. Every step towards the hole in the ground I rot, Carrying your white coffin, my heart wide shut. I will follow you, earth to earth. I will follow you, ashes to ashes. I will follow you, dust to dust. I will follow you! How I wish even for one tear, But for my heart it is too late, When sorrow turns to hate. "And the candles on cathedral walls Chase the weak light under the Saints eyes Over you, and your shattered words for the ones you lost. In your mourning you're alone, so alone."