Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song If The Brakeman Turns My Way , by - Bright Eyes. Release date: 31.12.2006
Song language: English
If The Brakeman Turns My Way |
| When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird |
| Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you’re breathing in reverse |
| All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse |
| Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt |
| Better find yourself a place to level out |
| Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way |
| A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret |
| Hey, where have all the dancers gone? |
| Now the music doesn’t play |
| Tried to listen to the river but you couldn’t shut your mouth |
| Better take a little time to level out |
| I never thought of running |
| My feet just led the way |
| Mixed up Signals |
| Bullet Train |
| Cars are switched out in the crazy rain |
| I could meet you any place |
| If the Brakeman turns my way |
| All this automatic writing I have tried to understand |
| From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand |
| It’s an infinite coincidence but it doesn’t form a plan |
| So I’m headed for New England or the Paris of the South |
| Gonna find myself somewhere to level out |
| Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen? |
| Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens |
| All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again |
| First a mother bathes her child then the other way around |
| The Scales always find a way to level out |
| I tried to pass for nothing |
| But my dreams gave me away |
| Mixed up Signals |
| Bullet Train |
| People snuffed out in the brutal rain |
| I could live to any age |
| If the Brakeman turns my way |
| It is an old world it’s hard to remember |
| Like a dime store mystery |
| I’m a repeat first time offender |
| Who has rewritten history |
| Mixed up tea leaves |
| Phantom Pain |
| Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain |
| Getting better every day |
| If the Brakeman turns my way |
| Mixed up Signals |
| Bullet Train |
| Cars are switched out in the blinding rain |
| He’ll be smiling as he seals my fate |
| When the Brakeman turns my way |