Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song From a Balance Beam, artist - Bright Eyes.
Date of issue: 12.08.2002
Song language: English
From a Balance Beam |
There is a man holding a megaphone |
He must have been the voice of God |
The bystanders claimed they saw angels |
Flying up and down the block |
They must have been attached to wires |
I saw one laying in the lawn with a broken arm |
So I called 911 |
Well that’s one less founded opinion |
One more cause for a dispute |
So the street filled, like a basin |
Up with cameras and their crews |
And they washed away the rumors |
Leaving just the concrete truth |
It was a spectacle |
No, I mean a miracle |
So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam |
A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me |
I lifted one foot to cross the other |
And I felt myself slipping |
It was a small mistake |
Sometimes that is all it takes |
Now I’m staring at my wrist |
Hoping that the timing is right |
When the planets will align |
There will be no planets to align |
Just the carcass of the sun |
And those little painted marbles |
Spinning senseless through an endless black sky |
(and so it never started |
And it will never stop |
Just like I am and you are) |
It was in a foreign hotel’s bathtub |
I baptized myself in change |
And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been |
I emerged to find the parallels were fewer |
I was cleansed |
I looked in the mirror |
And someone new was there |
Still, I was as helpless as a chess piece |
When I was lifted up by someone’s hand |
And delivered from the corner my enemies had got me in |
But in all of my salvation |
I still felt imprisonment |
Inside that holding cell that is myself |
So I wait for the day when I’ll hear the key |
As it turns in the lock |
And the guard will say to me |
«Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for this day |
And finally you are free! |
You are free! |
You are freezing.» |
Now I’m staring at the sun |
Waiting for it to explode |
Because a day is gonna come |
Don’t know when but it will come |
And then we will finally know the way out of here |
And I will throw away this wrinkled map |
And my chart of stars and compass, cracked |
And I’ll climb out that tree |
All wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below |
I’ll cut out my lover’s tongue and sing |
Of a graveyard gray and a garden green |
And we won’t have to worry no more |
No we won’t have to wonder again about |
How this song or story ends |
About how this song and story will end |