Loose Leaves Lyrics - There Is No Beginning To The Story - Bright Eyes

There are stories in the soil, loose leaves cover the ground 

There's volumes in the forest, no one reads out loud 

If I could take them down off of that mountain shelf 

We used to climb but no one tries to go up that far now, yeah 

We're all too busy working, entertaining ourselves 

Forty hours television and prescription pills 

Well, I take two a day to make my brain behave 

It never does but who's to say, at least my doctor gets paid 

So that's fine, yeah, come by, we'll take the afternoon off 

We can kiss and undress or if you want just talk 

'Cause I've got nothing real, just empty space to fill 

And you're my girl I like your style, just imagine all the time we could kill 

And time's not poison but once you drink it all you'll die 

So let's just sip it real slow, yeah, we can nurse it all night 

Try to believe that once it's gone 

We'll pour another round and come back to life, come right back 

I guess I'm moving faster now or that's what they said 

And though some days still take forever I can't disagree 

Because it seems to me that I wake up and sleep 

Look in the mirror, have no idea what happened in between 

But I remember counting days down 'til the year could be done 

So I could scatter all my notebooks on the prep school lawn 

And disappear again into a summer's bliss 

Of staying out, sleeping in and getting drunk with my friends 

Well, that's gone and I know that it won't ever come back 

I accept I won't cling to what I had in the past 

But life's a slippery slope, regret's the steepest hill 

Hope for the best, plan for the worst and maybe wind up 

Somewhere in the middle 

And I'm not saying that I know what I want 

But I know what I don't, don't want to rot in my room 

And never know what could have been 

Believe what everyone else tells me is true 

Yeah, they say, "True" Yeah 

Yeah, they say, "True", Yeah, they say, "True" 

That's what they say, they say