I Don't Wanna Know

Pigeons

i needed to rest
i felt like i’d fallen
i needed a wish
i needed to stall
i needed to try
something at all
then she came to me

she wanted the best
she wanted it all
she wanted to sell
everything off
and i’d take the rest
she wanted to get
me off and running

i like being around her
i’m seeing the counselor
i’m seeing the counselor

now every night
when i’m in her arms
i feel like peter
stealing from paul
but i can’t resist
i’m thinking of this
and she’s there sleeping

she talks a lot
about the future
and i’m on the edge
and i’ll jump off
with her on the ledge
and everything stops
feeling real sad

i like being around her
i’m seeing the counselor
i’m seeing the counselor

Seeing The Counselor

Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole
I saw your legends lined up
And I never felt more natural
Apart, I just came apart

Please, please, please sister Socrates
You always answer with a question
Show some kindness to a petty thief
Forgive, you did forgive

Watch the migrants smoke in the old orange grove
And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral
You've been a father to me
In 1960's speak
In the comatose joy that we're on TV
While the mountain's side was shining
Wild colors of my destiny

I watched your face age backwards
Changing shape in my memory
You told me victory's sweet
Even deep in the cheap seats

Hey, hey, hey mother interstate
Can you deliver me from evil
Make me honest make me wedding cake
Atone, I will atone

Wait, wait, wait mighty outer-space
All that flying saucer terror
Made me lazy drinking lemonade
A waste, it just went to waste

Like the Freon cold out the hotel door
Or the white rocket fade over Cape Canaveral
You've been a daughter to me
Your buried shoe-box grief
I felt your poltergeist love like Savannah heat
While the waterfall was pouring
Crazy symbols of my destiny

I watched your face die backwards
Little baby in my memory
You told me victory's sweet
Even deep in the cheap seats

song written by Conor Oberst

Cape Canaveral

downtown
then over west
and things were at the time
kinda feeling tense

the music loud
we’re eating bread
knowing all the while you were over dressed

i didn’t know
what you said to me
was from a comedy
i didn’t know what you said that time was a comedy line yeah

i was breaking out
of feeling stressed
the plans were at the time 
kinda under-prepped

but over rounds
of getting red
i had to feel it out
like it was a test drive

i didn’t know
what you said to me
was from a comedy
i didn’t know what you said that time was a comedy line yeah

i’m thinking how 
i’m doing yet
and looking at the lines
in your face i guess

i’m freaking out
and feeling glad
everything’s wild
in a friday night spiral

i didn’t know
what you said to me
was from a comedy
i didn’t know what you said that time was a comedy line


What You Said To Me (Was From A Comedy)

and so we drive all night silent til the morning frickin pickin our lives and the fallen flipping over the ice just so like anybody coulda found you and then the sun comes up foggin up the windshield a flicker in your eyes like a forcefield like armor around an apple what could we do without you and i never woulda loved if you never woulda helped me and ill take the time to take the wrong way bettin on a chance theres a place to turnaround and so were all mixed up the fire was on a sunday breakin on trial and everybodys wanting every sun child breaks well then i wont break down and i never woulda run if you never woulda helped me and youre right to cry and its a long day breakin down a sham that you finally turn around 

and i never woulda loved if you never woulda helped me and ill take the time to take the wrong way bettin on a chance theres a place to turnaround

And So We Drive All Night Silent Til The Morning

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