Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Center of the World, artist - Bright Eyes.
Date of issue: 02.07.2007
Song language: English
The Center of the World |
At the center of the world |
There’s a statue of a girl |
She is standing near a well |
With a bucket bare and dry |
I went and looked her in the eyes |
And she turned me into sand |
This clumsy form that I despise |
It scattered easy in her hand |
And came to rest upon a beach |
With a million others there |
We sat and waited for the sea |
To stretch out so that we could disappear |
Into the endlessness of blue |
Into the horror of the truth |
You see we are far less than we knew |
Yeah, we are far less than we knew |
But we knew what we could taste |
Girls found honey to drench our hands |
Men cut marble to mark our graves |
Said we’ll need something to remind us of |
All the sweetness that has passed through us |
(Fresh sangria and lemon tea) |
The priests dressed children for a choir |
(White-robed small voices praise Him) |
But found no joy in what was sung |
The funeral had begun |
In the middle of the day |
When you drive home to your place |
From that job that makes you sleep |
Back to the thoughts that keep you awake |
Long after night has come to claim |
Any life that still remains |
In the corner of the frame |
That you put around her face |
Two pills just weren’t enough |
The alarm clock’s going off |
But you’re not waking up |
This isn’t happening happening happening happening happening |
It is |