Make War Lyrics - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - 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 

Exchangin' 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 have to do the same 

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

My compass spins, the wilderness remains 

Once too often I've retreated into the depths of my despair 

I built a barricade to block you on the road 

But standin' 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 

Be common ground on 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, oh war 

On who you were before and claim all that has spoiled in your heart 

Now I tell myself I've mended under these patches of blue sky 

There's still a few holes that let in a little rain 

And so it's crying on my shingles 

My floorboards moan under my feet 

The refrigerator's whinin' so I got reason to complain 

But I'm not going to 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 will never save your soul 

And that's a fact 

So hurry up and run to the one that you love 

And tie him up in your likeness 

And he'll become, become the prisoner I was 

And know all that has spoiled in your heart 

He'll 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, oh war on who you were before 

And 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, oh war on who you were before 

And claim all that has spoiled in your heart 

Yeah he'll claim all that has spoiled