Make War - Bright Eyes

Our love is dead but without limit

Like the surface of the moon

Or the land between here and the mountains

Well, it is not these hiding places

That have kept us innocent

But the way you taught me to just let it all go by

And so we’ve learned to be as faithless

Stand behind bulletproof glass

Exchanging our affections through a drawer

And it was always horribly convenient

And happening too fast

You should count your change before you’re even out the door

Yes, you should but please…

Return, return to the person that you were

And I will do the same

Cause it is too hard to belong to someone who is gone

My compass spins

The wilderness remains

Once too often, I have retreated

Into the depths of my despair

I built a barricade to block you on the road

But standing there with all of my possessions

Piled higher than a house

I felt closer to you than you ever would have known

So let these tiny acts of charity

Become common ground of which to build

A monument to commemorate our time

And though, you say, you’ve found another

Who will surely speed you on your way

Don’t let the forest grow over that path you came there by

But you will, so…

So hurry up and run to the one that you love

And blind him with your kindness

And he’ll make war, old war, on who you were before

And he’ll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

Well, now, I tell myself I’ve mended

Under these patches of blue sky

There are still a few holes that let in a little rain

And so it is crying on my shingles

My floorboards moan under my feet

The refrigerator is whining, so I’ve got reason to complain

But I am not gonna bless you with such compliments

Some degrading psalm of praise

Like the kind that converted you to me so long ago

Because the truth is that gossip’s

As good as gospel in this town

You can save face but you won’t ever save your soul

And that’s a fact

So hurry up and run to the one that you love

And tie him up in you likeness

And he’ll become, become the prisoner I was

And know all that has spoiled in your heart

And know all that has spoiled in your heart

So hurry up and run to the one that you love

And blind him with your kindness

And he’ll make war, old war, on who you were before

And he’ll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

Yeah, he’ll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

(So hurry up and run to the one that you love

And blind him with your kindness

And he’ll make war, old war, on who you were before

And he’ll claim all that has spoiled in your heart

Yeah, he’ll claim all that has spoiled…)