Zigzagging Toward The Light Lyrics - Upside-down Mountain - Conor Oberst

I'm blessed with a heart that doesn't stop 

My minds a weathervane it spins around just like a top 

Knows what the winds of fortune bring 

In the season of the witch 

Home is a perjury, a parlor trick, an urban myth 

Oh how the circumstances change 

This world of smoke and steel 

Of compromise and meter-maids 

I'm going to leave here before too long 

Zigzagging toward the light 

I'm off to sing my bounder's song 

True love it hides like city stars 

Nothing to gaze upon or contemplate 

How near or far 

If it comes, it comes quite unannounced 

A momentary glance 

Lit up by sun or moon 

Or bonfire or ambulance 

How the circumstances change 

Feels unmistakable with no idea from where it came 

But you will know it when it's gone 

Zigzagging through the night 

Half-dead you sing your bounder's song 

Half-dead you sing, half-dead you sing 

Sing for the bounder whose word is never kept 

A bindle of flowers to state his mind 

And bloom when he forgets 

It's true that shadows tell the time 

On sunny afternoons, on crowded sidewalks, passersby 

I'm in a queue that stretches out 

Far as the eye can see 

It forms a figure eight and goes on for eternity 

Oh how the circumstances change 

I fly by interstate across a purple mountain range 

I find a place to come undone 

Zigzagging toward you now 

I sing out loud my bounder's song