Lyrics: The Awful Sweetness Of Escaping Sweat Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   We escape from the houseAs the day disappears from the skyInto night we became what we wanted to belike a dream or a ghostI collapse out of…

Lyrics: Drunk Kid Catholic Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   The drunk kids, the catholicsThey’re all about the sameThey’re waiting for somethingHoping to be savedWell I have been happy the past couple daysJust thinking of the women who’ve taken your…

Lyrics: A Scale, A Mirror, And Those Indifferent Clocks Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   Here’s a scale, weigh it out and you’ll find, easilyMore than sufficient doubt that these colors you seewere picked in advance by some careful handWith…

Lyrics: The Center of the World Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   At the center of the world there is a statue of a girl. She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry. I…

Lyrics: Solid Jackson Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   She says she’s read too many fashion magazinesShe’s forgotten what real love is likeAnd as the basement collects more kids off the streetThey smoke themselves to death waiting for the band…

Lyrics: June On The West Coast Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   I spent a week drinking the sunlight of Winnetka, CaliforniaWhere they understand the weight of human heartsYou see, sorrow gets too heavy and joy it tends to hold…

Lyrics: Pull My Hair Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   Is the passion all gone?Or is it still newly-wed?If all this heat’s doingIs making us stick to the bedThen there’s no life to reviveBut if the hunger’s still thereBurried somewhere…

Lyrics: When the Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass Album: Fevers & Mirrors Artist: Bright Eyes   Tomorrow when I wake up I’m finding my brother and making him take me back down to the water. That lake where…

Lyrics: The Difference In The Shades Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   Now that it’s JuneWe’ll sleep out in the gardenAnd if it rainsWe’ll just sink into the mudWhere it is quietAnd much cooler than the house isAnd there’s no…

Lyrics: Contrast And Compare Album: N/A Artist: Bright Eyes   You contrast and compareBetween the busy ones and the ones who don’t careUntil there is no oneThat you really knowSo I drift through these daysOf appointments and promises madeThey will…