Nothing Gets Crossed Out Lyrics - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - Bright Eyes

Well, the future's got me worried 

Such awful thoughts 

My head's a carousel of pictures 

The spinning never stops 

I just want someone to walk in front 

And I'll follow the leader 

Like when I fell under the weight 

Of a schoolboy crush 

Started carrying her books 

And doing lots of drugs 

I almost forgot who I was 

But came to my senses 

Now I'm trying to be assertive 

I'm making plans 

Wanna rise to the occasion 

Yeah, meet all their demands 

But all I do is just lay in bed 

And hide under the covers 

Yeah, I know I should be brave 

But I'm just too afraid 

Of all this change 

And it's to hard to focus 

Through all this doubt 

I keep making this 'To Do' list 

But nothing gets crossed out 

Working on the record seems pointless now 

When the world ends, who's gonna hear it? 

Well, I'm trying to take some comfort 

In written words 

Yeah, Tim, I heard your album 

It's better than good 

When you get off tour, I think we should 

Hang and blackout together 

'Cause I've been feeling sentimental 

For days gone by 

All those summers singing, drinking 

Laughing, wasting our time 

Remember all those songs and the way we smiled 

In those basements made of music 

But now I've got to crawl 

To get anywhere at all 

I'm not as strong as I thought 

So when I'm lost in a crowd 

I hope that you'll pick me out 

How I long to be found 

The grass grew high, I laid down 

Now I wait for a hand 

To lift me up, help me stand 

I've been laying so low 

Don't wanna lay here no more 

Don't wanna lay here no more 

Don't wanna lay here no more 

Don't wanna lay here no more 

No more, more 

But if everything that happens 

Is supposed to be 

And it's all predetermined 

Can't change your destiny 

I guess, I'll just keep moving, someday, maybe 

I'll get to where I'm going