Map Of The World Lyrics - Singles - Monsters Of Folk

There's a map of the world on the wall in your room 

Green pins where you want to go 

White pins where you've been, there isn't even ten 

Your already feeling old 

Pretty faces stare back from a magazine stack 

That you read when you're feeling bored 

Look through a telescope lens it doesn't make sense 

You think you've been there before 

Some far off feeling, some up close kind of ache 

A wide screen reason to look the other way 

There's a place by the lake that you go when it's late 

In the summer when the crowds are gone 

You sit all alone with your thoughts getting stoned 

Just waiting for some peace to come 

Like the thing that you tried that you thought that you liked 

For a minute then it all felt wrong 

So you change it again all your clothes, all your friends 

It's the same as it ever was 

That far off feeling, that up close kind of ache 

Some wide screen reason to look the other way 

It's the road that you paved over Indian graves 

And you wonder why your dreams are crazed 

So you cling to wife, your kids and your life 

There's nothing that your gonna save 

Put the razor to your face, hot water for a shave 

Kill the shadow of yesterday 

Clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate, second chance 

You're going by another name 

Some far off feeling, an up close kind of ache 

That instant karma always comes too late