If The Brakeman Turns My Way Lyrics - Bright Eyes

When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird 

Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse 

All your friends and sedatives mean well, but make it worse 

Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt 

Better find yourself a place to level out 

Got a cricket for a conscience, always looks the other way 

A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret 

Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play 

Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth 

Better take a little time to level out 

I never thought of running 

My feet just led the way 

Mixed up signals 

Bullet train 

Cars are switched out in the crazy rain 

I could meet you any place 

If the brakeman turns my way 

All this automatic writing I have tried to understand 

From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand 

It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan 

So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South 

Going to find myself somewhere to level out 

Are your brothels full, oh Babylon, with merry middlemen? 

Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens 

All this death must need a counterweight, always someone born again 

First a mother bathes her child, then the other way around 

The scales always find a way to level out 

I tried to pass for nothing 

But my dreams gave me away 

Mixed up signals 

Bullet train 

People snuffed out in the brutal rain 

I could live to any age 

If the brakeman turns my way 

It is an old world, it's hard to remember 

Like a dime store mystery 

I'm a repeat first time offender 

Who has rewritten history 

Mixed up tea leaves 

Phantom pain 

Fuzzy logic in the the crazy rain 

Getting better every day 

If the brakeman turns my way 

Mixed up signals 

Bullet train 

Cars are switched out in the blinding rain 

He'll be smiling as he seals my fate 

When the brakeman turns my way