Make War lyrics

Song information

Artist: Bright Eyes
Album: Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

Lyrics

Our love is dead but without limit
Like the surface of the moon
Or the land between here and the mountains
It is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
But the way you taught me to just let it all go by

And so we have learned to be as faithless
Stand behind bulletproof glass
Exchanging our affections through a drawer
And it was always horribly convenient
And happening too fast
You should count your change before you are even out the door

Well, yes, yes, you should

But please..

Return, return to the person that you were
And I will do the same
Because it is too hard to belong to someone who is gone
My compass spins
The wilderness remains

Once too often, I have retreated into the depths of my despair
I built a barricade to block you on the road
But standing there with all of my possessions
Piled higher than a house
I felt closer to you than you ever would have known

So let these tiny acts of charity
Become common ground on which to build a monument to commemorate our time. and though you say you've found another
Who will surely speed you on your way
Don't let the forest grow over that path you came there by
But you will, so..

So hurry up and run to the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he will make war, oh war
On who you were before
And he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

Alright help me out boys!

Well, now, I tell myself I've mended under these patches of blue sky
There are still a few holes that let in a little rain
So it is crying on my shingles
My floorboards moan under my feet
The refrigerator is whining
So I've got reason to complain

But 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
Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town
You can save face but you won't ever save your soul
And that's a fact

So, so hurry up and run
To the one that you love
And tie him up in your likeness
And he'll become, become
The prisoner I was. a
Nd know all that has spoiled your heart

He'll know it all!

He'll know all that has spoiled in your heart

So hurry up and run
To the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he'll make war, oh war
On who you were you before
And claim all that has spoiled in your heart
Yeah, he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

[Music stops]

So hurry up and run
To the one that you love
And blind him with your kindness
And he'll make war, oh, war
On who you were before
And claim all that has spoiled in your heart
Yeah, he'll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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