The National - I'll Still Destroy You

It's so easy to set off

The molecules and the caplets

They all have something against me

Nothing I do makes me feel different

This one's like your sister's best friends in a bath calling you to join them

Can't avoid them

This one's like your mother's arms when she was young and sunburnt in the '80s

Lasts forever

The more level they have me

The more I cannot stand me

I have helpless friendships

And bad taste in liquids

This one's like the wilderness, without the world I'm gonna miss those long nights, the windows open

I keep re-reading the same lines always up at 5am every morning

Like a baby

It's just the lights coming on

It's just the lights coming on

I have no positions

No point of view or vision

I'm just trying to stay in touch with anything I'm still in touch with

The sky's getting white

I can't find a lighter anywhere I'm going crazy

I'm not crazy

Put your heels against the wall

I swear you got a little bit taller since I saw you, I'll still destroy you

It's just the lights coming on

It's just the lights coming on

The National - Carin at the Liquor Store

I was a worm, I was a creature
I get on the ground the second I'd see you
You cannot command your love
I wasn't a catch, I wasn't a keeper
I was walking around like I was the one who found dead John Cheever
Hand in glove

So blame it on me
I really don't care
It's a foregone conclusion

I see you in stations and on invitations
You'd fall into rivers with friends on the weekends
Innocent skies above
Carin at the liquor store, I can't wait to see you
I'm walking around like I was the one who found dead John Cheever
In the house of love

So blame it on me
I really don't care
It's a foregone conclusion

It wasn't so bad, I wasn't that sick
Got taken by love, I wasn't that quick
Foregone conclusion

It's gonna be different after tonight
You're gonna see me in a different light
It's a foregone conclusion

So blame it on me
I really don't care
It's a foregone conclusion

I'm already seeing
Stars in the air
It's a foregone conclusion

The National - Empire Line

You've been sleeping for miles
So what did you see?
Here the skies been falling white flowers
And there's ice in all the trees
I've been tapping the table
I've been hoping to drink
There's a line that goes all the way from my childhood to you

Can't you find a way?
Can't you find a way?
You are in this too
Can't you find a way?

I've been trying to see where we're going, but you're so hard to follow
And I don't think we're getting anywhere any time soon
We have so much in common, I don't know what I'm expecting
You just keep saying so many things that I wish you won't

Can't you find a way?
Can't you find a way?
You are in this too
Can't you find a way?

I've been talking about you to myself
Cause there's nobody else
And I want what I want
And I want everything
I want everything
I've been talking about you to myself
Cause there's nobody else
And I want what I want
And I want everything
I want everything

Can't you find a way?
Can't you find a way?
You are in this too
Can't you find a way?

The National - Day I Die

I don't need you, I don't need you
Besides I barely ever see you anymore
And when I do it feels like you're only halfway there
Young mothers love me even ghosts of
Girlfriends call from Cleveland
They will meet me anytime and anywhere

The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?
The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?

Don't do this, I don't do this to you
Don't expect me to enjoy it
'Cause I really don't have the courage not to turn the volume up inside my ears
For years I used to put my head inside the speakers
In the hallway when you get too high and talk forever

The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?
The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?

The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?
The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?

I get a little punchy with the vodka just like my great uncle Valentine Jester did
But he had to deal with those people like you who made no goddamn common sense
I’d rather walk all the way home right now than to spend one more second in this place
I’m exactly like you Valentine, just come outside and leave with me

Let's just get high enough to see our problems
Let’s just get high enough to see our fathers’ houses

The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?
The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?

The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?
The day I die, the day I die
Where will we be?