Alternative
Eyes As Candles
by Passion Pit
Release Date:
2009-05-15
Lyrics
My world astir and sickly
Spits out our voices singing,
"Tra la la la"on high now
To kingdom come so slightly.
Herein the void in your place,
I twitch and tweak in allusion
To sit and stare so blankly
Until all hope is uesd up
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeing?
Where do you go when I'm around?
What have I done? What have I lost that's so defeating?
And have the nerve to wear the crown?
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
In some dark room
A smoky figure fills me full,
Makes my head swell in ruin
My family kneels at the pew,
They nod, "We believe in what you're doing!"
I feel it rise above me,
The western landscape towering,
And from my shell of a body
The flowers blossom for picking.
Why do I always need to need you when you're fleeing?
Where do you go when I'm around?
What have I done, what have I got that's so defeating?
And have the nerve to wear the crown?
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
Na na na na na na, hey! hey!
I've waited and waited for someone to take it.
Don't fight it, don't bother an inch for another.
Don't listen, don't hear them, they're in this together.
I've learned well, now hear me, there's much to be fearing.
I'm used to your absence, your faceless distraction.
I've painted your patterns but found them attractive.
Now I've been leaning towards a life far more candid,
Though lead through the dark with your eyes as my candles,
Where your life and my life's directions can wrangle
And all of a sudden you left me to handle
The reasons that never forbid me to stand tall
And somehow or somewhere I found out the secret -
To staying alive without actually breathing
