Bright Eyes - I Believe In Symmetry - (with Nick Zinner) lyrics

Some plans were made and rice was thrown A house was built, a baby born How time can move both fast and slow amazes me So I raise my gla** to symmetry To the second hand and its accuracy To the actual size of everything The desert is the sand You can't hold it in your hand It won't bow to your demand There's no difference you can make, there's no difference you can make And if it seems like an accident A collage of senselessness Then you weren't looking hard enough I wasn't looking hard enough at it An argument for consciousness The instinct of the blind insect Who makes love to the flower bed, and dies in the first freeze Oh, I want to learn such simple things No politics, no history, till what I want and what I need can finally be the same I just got myself to blame Leave everything up to fate When there's choices I could make, when there's choices I could make And now my heart needs a polygraph, always so eager to pack my bags When I really want to stay, when I really want to stay When I want to stay, when I want to stay I don't want to stay, I don't want to stay The arc of time, the stench of s** The innocence you can't protect Each quarter step, each marble note Walk up and down that lonely trebel cleft Each wanting the next one Each wanting the next one to arrive Each wanting the next one Each wanting the next one to arrive Argument for conciousness, the instinct of the blind insect Who never thinks not to accept its fate, that's faith, that's happiness in d**h You give to the next one you give to the next on down the line You give to the next one You give to the next on down the line The levity of longing that distills each dream inside my head My morning watered down forget On silver stars I wish and wish and wish Move on to the next one Move on to the next one down the line Move on to the next one Move on to the next one down the line You get to the next one You get to the next on down the line You get to the next one You get to the next on down the line