I Believe In Symmetry Lyrics - Bright Eyes

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 

And so I raise my glass 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 demands 

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 

You aren'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 

Is everything up to fate 

When there's choices I could make 

When there's choices I could make 

Now, my heart needs a polygraph 

Always so eager to pack my bags 

When I really wanna stay 

When I really wanna stay 

When I wanna stay 

When I wanna stay 

When I wanna stay 

When I wanna stay 

The arc of time, the stench of sex 

The innocence you can't protect 

Each quarter note, each marble step 

Walk up and down that lonely treble clef 

Each wanting the next one 

Each wanting the next one to arrive 

Each wanting the next one 

Each wanting the next one to arrive 

An argument for consciousness 

The instinct of the blind insect 

Who never thinks not to accept its fate 

That's fate, that's happiness and death 

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 

The remedy of longing that 

Distills each dream and the song I had 

By morning watered down again 

On silver stars I wish and wish and wish 

From one to the next one 

From one to the next one down the line 

From one to the next one 

From one 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