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Dyslexic Palindrome by Bright Eyes album cover

Dyslexic Palindrome

by Bright Eyes

Lyrics
There's a billy club bruise
That shattered your skin
They're breaking up the union
To let the skives in

It's a baseball bat
To the back of your neck
And now you know, dear
Yeah

'Cause they won't take no
For an answer these days
There's a miracle drug
For the disengaged age

If the madmen say
"It's all okay"
They're lyin'

We can make up new meanings
For the things that you're seeing
But it's a long, long, long, long way from known
In the dyslexic palindrome

When the blue of the night
Meets the bruise round your eye
And it's painful
And blurring

Shut the kids in the car
No, you're not going far
But you gotta get moving

Take a pause from the show
So the sponsors can crow
With the TV on mute
No one has to know

You can read the fine print
That your lawyer decodes
While the racecar explodes
Wow

You can make up new meanings
For the things that you're feeling
But it's a long, long, long, long way from known
In the dyslexic palindrome

I'm seeing things upside down
I've started the ending now
A man, a plan, a canal
Napalm
Dyslexic palindrome