Bright Eyes - Entry Way Song lyrics

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Last Saturday I stood in your entry way

That place where we used to wait

For cars to carry us away

Like once in this storm, they drove me and Justin home

The music was just being born

It was all I was longing for

Now I'm on a plane

Off singing my songs again, oh please don't think ill of it

Cause it's the reason I exists

But you, you're the crutch of a cripple

You're the calm of a conscience

You're the peace that I have found

When all these voices talk too loud you are quietly reassuring me

With the hands of a healer

And the tongue of a teacher

It's your voice that I have known

To be the first one on the phone

Yeah, you ran all the lights to the hospital

So don't you say to me

That life's a trap

The future is nothing but a tragedy

'Cause I'll be out of that window

Yeah, I'll start wishing to die again

Just say we're not walking backwards, kid

And show me to the door

And I'll walk behind

Out into the hot sunlight

Where the world's very much alive

Even when I close my eyes

Well, should I admit

That my promise is counterfeit

That I'm careless and childish

And that's all I can hope to be

And would you concede

That I think only of myself

I refuse everybody's help

Who has been reaching out for me

Well, you reach with the soul of a sailor

And the swing of a miner

You have cleared the rock away

Leaving gold there in its place

And it is more than anyone could claim

Oh, with the sense of a banker

And with the touch of a tailor

You saved this life for me

And you have sown it to beauty

And I am grateful now and I will always be

So would you sing with me

The song is all I know

Some truths are told now only in a melody

So I've been writing a new one

Yeah, I've been taking my time with it

It's gonna be so perfect

It's gonna hold all of us inside of it

You will see

If you just add your harmony

I think it would be complete

And be worthy of singing

Becomes a symphony

Yeah, you're the cool of the water

You're the start of the summer

Keep me still like an anchor

In a storm you're the cellar

When I'm heavy with worry make me light as a feather

When I'm deafened by anger you're the song I remember

With the grace of a dancer and the strength of a pillar

When I'm starving to suffer you just fill me with laughter

You're a poet

And a saint

You are the only one I choose to imitate

Oh, like the love of a father through the eye of a camera

It's this picture I have seen

We're on a sloping hill of green

And you are walking there beside me