Half A Million Lyrics - The Shins

I make myself a promise 

Then break it every night 

I'm feeling loose and life don't make no sense 

I use my brains to build a fence 

'Round the claim I stake 

I take the drugs but the drugs won't take 

I took a pledge to grow up 

Then drank enough to make me throw up 

On all my dearly disappointed friends 

I'm just too lazy to make amends 

With you anyway 

That's why the pattern still remains 

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There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be 

A shelter in the nighttime 

A punk running free 

And if it gets too deep 

I reach for my guitar 

And if I try hard 

I find something I can really drop into 

And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing 

Everything is something next to nothing 

As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free 

Another candle to blow out 

New set of dark thoughts to shut out 

And everybody's got their remedies 

But nothing works like chemistry 

So raise a toast 

No more sipping from the fire hose 

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There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be 

A shelter in the nighttime 

A punk running free 

And if it gets too deep 

I reach for my guitar 

And if I try hard 

I find something I can really drop into 

And everything that was is just a thing that I can sing 

Everything is something next to nothing 

As crazy as it seems, you give it up and you are free 

There's half a million things that you're supposed to be 

A virgin in the moonlight 

A freak on the scene 

And if it gets too deep 

You reach for your guitar 

And if you try hard 

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be 

A shelter in the nighttime 

A punk running free 

And if it gets too deep 

I reach for my guitar 

And if I try hard 

There's half a million things that I'm supposed to be 

A shelter in the nighttime 

A punk running free 

And if it gets too deep 

I reach for my guitar 

And if I try hard