The Great Salt Lake - Band of Horses

Pulling up to the harbour This shipment's way overdue I'm going over starboard You're the wave I'm falling into Feel like I'm drowning in your eyes Still I am swimming towards your mind To see the surface I will wait You're the reason I'm back in this state I just want to feel your energy You've got to be my favourite company So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City Let's make it up as we go along That method's way underused (just make it up) I'm holding onto cardboard (not letting go) It's the end of this rendezvous Feels like I'm sleeping all the time Still really wish that things were fine We grace the surface of the page (here we go, here we go) You're the reason I'm back in this state I just want to feel your energy You've got to be my favourite company So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City I just want to taste the air you breathe Give you a reason to come back to me So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City Your pure elation, break temptation Your motivation, hot vacation I just want to feel your energy You've got to be my favourite company So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City I just want to feel your energy You've got to be my favourite company So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City, City, City I just want to taste the air you breathe Give you a reason to come back to me (come back to me) So tell me why do you have to be in Salt Lake City You know, you've got me

Backstage with the modern dancers She was stretching her arms, Configuring her body. While they were breathing, they were shouting. She was concentrating on her breathing And didn't seem to mind, As I sat there on the couch, And tuned my guitar, And played a few chords Like roses growing their thorns. Getting ready to perform With bare feet and painted faces, They took their places, On shivering legs beneath colourful gowns. And out there on the wooden floors, The sweat from their pores. I'm writing a list Of songs I can sing by myself. Backstage with the modern dancers, Who feel it, like I do. Like I feel it, like I feel it. Backstage with the modern dancers, Getting ready to go on, She showed me her spin, With a beauty lit from within. And all of these things, I don't think they should be released

I'll marry my lover in a place to admire I don't have to even ask her, I can look in her eyes And thank God that I am forgiven Or thank all of my friends to say I've been true or they've forgotten And weary my mind is, to say the least It's been awful hard to just stand on my feet I think I'll slow down if I am able I won't drown in the ocean or starve at my place at the table Lucky ones are we all 'till it is over Everyone near and far When you smile the sun, it peeks through the clouds Never die, for always be around and around and around And how is your sister and what of your brother? Extend hellos to your father and mother What in the world would cause you any sorrow? Lighten your load and see how I killed the wheelbarrow I borrowed Lucky ones are we all 'till it is over Everyone near and far When you smile the sun, it peeks through the clouds Never die, for always be around and around and around

Not, not a long time ago when I knew all the answers I couldn't pace myself or raise my standards But one can hope, you need to know And then one stayed one, one stayed one Forgotten where I was confusing it with another that I saw You wouldn't like nothing tonight Beginning was quite disturbing I got a crutch on you Just sick of needing something to do, to do Tablets in my pocket at the Easter soiree Bouncing off the carpet in line for TSA A lot of wasps on the walls, wasps on the walls Bailing toilet water in Lake Full of Moccasin I'm wrong, you're right, no need to fight The middle was dark and storming You're on your own, I need to go I got a crutch on you Guess I got nothing to lose Inebriated late afternoon, you were fading now I'm holding on too I got a crutch on you Finally nothing left to prove I sit around too long, way too long Thinking I should go, thinking I should go I'm going too Too I've got a crutch on you Wishing there was something that I could do I've got a crutch on you I've got a crutch on you, got a crutch on you Wishing there was something that I could do Got a crutch on you