Bright Eyes

We Are Free Men

Bright Eyes


Well, the future spills its intangibles
An unknown set of variables 
A path that spliten infinitely up ahead 
So tell me what's the use to pick and choose 
From what you should or shouldn't do? 
That's time spent better sleeping in your bed 
Or wide awake in a shopping mall, trying clothes on from off of the wall 
Yeah, anything to entertain yourself 
'Cause a costume can be comfortable 
It can make you feel more beautiful 
It can even make you look like someone else 
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do 
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is 
And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix 

They pat your back bruised with their accolades 
And all four walls are a trophy case 
But that doesn't make it any less of a cage 
But you can make it all less difficult 
By embracing the ephemeral 
Then you'd never have to worry or explain 
'Cause if it's really all just physical, then my memory's immaterial 
So why then do I remember you at all? 
But I do, I do, my friend, I seen your face 
We shared a cup, I know the taste 
Its sweetness is relentless on my lips 
So help me drink in everything that is 
Like a freed convict, drunk on redemption 
From the way I've been 
But I swear this time, that things will be different 

Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart 
For those who'd write that sentence where you hang 
We will be lifted up from all of this 
Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence 
Yeah, your body's gone, but angel, you will live 

Yeah your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 

Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 

Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone 
Now your body's gone but angel you will live