Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Classic Cars, artist - Bright Eyes.
Date of issue: 31.12.2006
Song language: English
Classic Cars |
She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts |
She said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars |
So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar |
To think of them all alone in the dark |
So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen |
She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean |
Gave me anything I wanted, Oh the generosity |
I took all that I could, it was free |
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds are just splattered paint |
It’s a room I’m renovating; |
it’s a name I got to change |
If I get out of California I’m going back to my home state |
To tell them all that I made a mistake |
And I keep looking for that blindfold faith |
Lighting candles to a cynical saint |
Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape |
You can go right out of your mind trying to escape |
From the panicked paradox of day to day |
If you can’t understand something then it’s best to be afraid |
The whole world it loves you if you are a chic chameleon |
Intersecting circles she could hang with anyone |
But when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from |
Saying, «Life is how it is not how it was» |
I l earned to listen felt like I was back at school |
She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon |
Saying, «Everything is a cycle, you’ve got to let it come to you |
And when it does, you will know what to do» |
Without even knowing I guess I took her advice |
Painted her front door it seemed a suitable goodbye |
It’s not that often but I think of her sometimes |
Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night |
And they keep moving at a glacial pace |
Turning circles in a memory maze |
I made a new cast of the death mask that is gonna cover my face |
I had to change the combination to the safe |
Hide it all behind a wall let people wait |
And never trust a heart that is so bent it can’t break |