LIFTED. sentences taken from the bright eyes album, lifted, or the story is in the soil, keep your ear to the ground.
the picture's far too big to look at, kid.
the truth still isn't out.
each time you turn a corner, you're right back where you were.
your only hope is forgetting.
is it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak?
i mean, it's cool if you keep quiet, but i like singing.
wishing will just leave you empty.
you can try to live in darkness, but you will never shake the light.
it will greet you every morning, make you more aware with its absence at night.
i've seen the day of your awakening, boy, and it's coming soon.
you're just a piece of the puzzle, so i think you'd better find your place.
if it makes you happy then keep kneeling, but i'm standing up.
i've been a witness to such wonders.
i think i'll be returning now.
i understand you must keep moving, friend, but i'm headed home.
i will send this message in code.
the hook's in deep, boys. there's no more time.
you can struggle in the water, be too stubborn to die, or you can just let go and be lifted to the sky.
there is no beginning to the story.
it's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty tv screen.
you can squint at it through snowy static to make out the meaning.
just tell us what to fear.
i don't know what tomorrow brings. it's alive with such possibilities.
please keep the tape rolling.
we need a record of our failures.
we must document our love.
i've sat too long in my silence, have grown too old in my pain, to shed this skin, be born again.
it starts with an ending.
thank you, friends, for the time we shared.
my love stays with you like sunlight and air.
oh, i truly wish i could keep hanging around here.
this method acting, well, i call that living.
we have a problem with no solution but to love and to be loved.
i've made peace with the falling leaves. i see their same fate in my own body.
i won't be frightened when i'm awoken from this dream.
my actions are orchestrated from above me.
for a song, i was bought.
onto a stage, i was pushed, with my sorrow well-rehearsed, so give me all your pity and your money now.
we used to think that sound was something pure.
now all anyone's listening for are the mistakes.
fuck my face, fuck my name. they are brief and false advertisements for a soul i don't have, something true i have lacked.
they will lift me up out of darkness.
how awful that must feel.
you said you'd be my dream, i could have you every night.
if by morning i'd forgotten you, well, no big deal, that'd be alright.
you are the reoccurring kind. you never really leave my mind.
are you the love of my lifetime?
there's been times i've had my doubts.
we were just kids when i first kissed you.
i wish we were there now.
i write when i'm away letters that you'll never read.
go explore those other women, the geography of their bodies.
you're a boomerang, you'll see. you will return to me.
it's up the stairs and out of view. no prying eyes.
your tongue in my mouth, trying to keep the words from coming out.
you didn't care to know who else may have been you before.
i want a lover i don't have to love.
i thought he said to meet me here, but i'm not sure.
i got the money if you got the time.
let's just keep touching.
i got a hunger and i can't seem to get full.
i need some meaning i can memorize. the kind i have always seems to slip my mind.
you write such pretty words, but life's no storybook.
love's an excuse to get hurt and to hurt.
there was a loophole in my dreaming, so i got out of it.
to my surprise, my eyes were wide and already open.
there's nothing i can do for you you can't do for yourself.
just hold my hand, i think that that would help.
i think i'm cured. in fact, i'm sure of it.
that's how i learned the lesson that everyone's alone.
don't worry, 'cause now i got your back.
every time you feel like crying, i'm gonna try and make you laugh.
if it just hurts too bad, then we'll wait for it to pass, and i will keep you company.
we'll keep working on the problem we know we'll never solve.
our lives are fractions of a whole.
did he come to save, did he come at all?
would he make me clean again?
they say they don't know when, but a day is gonna come.
every man wanted her, yeah, and so did i.
she up and died in a fit of vanity.
what my father did, you know it don't mean shit. i'm not him.
you think i need some discipline. well, i had my share.
i don't know why, but i still try to smile when they talk at me like i'm just a child.
there is no truth, there is only you and what you make the truth.
i'll leave you town and i'll never look back.
i don't look back because the road is clear and laid out ahead of me.
they'll know how i love them.
i'm nothing without their love.
i don't know when, but a day is gonna come.
could you please start explaining?
you know, i need some understanding.
the future has got me worried.
the spinning never stops.
i just want someone to walk in front and i'll follow the leader.
i fell under the weight of a schoolboy crush.
i almost forgot who i was, but came to my senses.
i'm trying to be assertive. i'm making plans.
wanna rise to the occasion, yeah, meet all of their demands.
i know i should be brave, but i'm just too afraid of all this change.
it's too hard to focus through all this doubt.
i keep making these to do lists but nothing gets crossed out.
when the world ends, who's gonna hear it?
i've been feeling sentimental for days gone by.
now i've got to crawl to get anywhere at all.
i'm not as strong as i thought.
oh, how i long to be found.
i wait for a hand to lift me up, help me stand.
i have been laying so low. don't want to lay here no more.
someday, maybe, i'll get to where i'm going.
our love is dead but without limit.
you taught me to just let it all go by.
it was always horribly convenient and happening too fast.
return to the person that you were and i will do the same.
it is too hard to belong to someone who is gone.
once too often, i have retreated into the depths of my despair.
i felt closer to you than you ever would have known.
hurry up and run to the one that you love.
blind him with your kindness.
he'll make war on who you were before.
he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart.
i am not gonna bless you with such compliments, some degrading psalm of praise like the kind that converted you to me so long ago.
the truth is that gossip's as good as gospel in this town.
you can save face but you won't ever save your soul.
no beauty could have come from me.
i'm a waste of breath, of space, of time.
with one day leading to the next, you get a little closer to your death.
no one got hurt, you should be thankful.
your carelessness, it is something awful.
your decisions now are yours alone.
i'll play again, get lucky.
i want to scream out that it all is nonsense.
can't they see it's pointless?
i'm never real, it's just a sketch of me.
when the voices blend they sound like angels.
i hope there's some room still in the middle.
i have no faith, but it's all i want.
he must have been the voice of god.
well, that's one less founded opinion, one more cause for a dispute.
it was a spectacle. no, i mean a miracle.
it was a small mistake. sometimes that is all it takes.
and so it never started and it will never stop, just like i am and you are.
i baptized myself in change and one by one i drowned all of the people i had been.
i looked in the mirror and someone new was there.
still, i was as helpless as a chess piece.
in all of my salvation, i still felt imprisonment inside that holding cell that is myself.
oh, my patient prisoner, you have waited for this day and, finally, you are free!
we will finally know the way out of here.
i'll cut out my lover's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green.
we won't have to worry no more.
are you still living there on your estate of sorrows?
you used to leave it occasionally, but now you don't even bother.
how their eyes seemed to follow you.
you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman.
i thought you were beautiful, but i wept with your movements.
oh, how she would worry so.
she asked me to care for you.
do you know we're in high demand?
us people who suffer, because we don't take to arguing and we're quick to surrender.
i think i would call tonight if i still had your number.
your thoughts have always lain close to mine.
you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living.
it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.
the city's driving me out of my mind.
next time, he will not aim so high. yeah, next time, neither will i.
i've learned to retreat at the first sign of danger.
i mean, why wait around if it's just to surrender?
ambition, i've found, can lead only to failure.
i do not read the reviews.
with all these wishes i make, i should buy something real.
i don't have them to blame.
well, i should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgment.
"honesty," "accuracy" is just popular opinion and the approval rating's high.
they give us fact or fiction? i guess an even split.
we're still the pawns in their game.
they take eye for an eye until no one can see.
we must stumble blindly forward, repeating history.
i love you regardless and there's nothing you could do that would ever change this.
i'm not angry, it happens. but you just can't do it again.
i've been staring too long at the screen.
it came to my ears in the goddamn loveliest melody.
how grateful i was, then, to be part of the mystery.
to love and to be loved. let's just hope that is enough.
