The National - Demons lyrics

rate me

When I think of you in the city

The sight of you among the sites

I get this sudden sinking feeling

Of a man about to fly

Never kept me up before

Now I’ve been awake for days

I can’t fight it anymore

I’m going through an awkward phase

I am secretly in love with,

Everyone that I grew up with

Do not cry in underwater

I can’t get down any farther

All my drowning friends can see

Now there is no running from it

It’s become my cross of me

I wish that I could rise above it

But I stay down, with my demons

I stay down, with my demons

Passing buzzards in the sky, aligators in the sewers

I don’t even wonder why, I hide among the other viewers

Huddle with them all night long

The worried talk to god goes on

I sincerely tried to love it

Wish that I could rise above it

But I stay down, with my demons

I stay down, with my demons

But I stay down, with my demons

I stay down, with my demons

Can I stay here? I can sleep on the floor

Paint the blood and hang the palms, on the door

Do not think I’m going places anymore

Wanna see the sun come up above New York

Whoa, everyday I start so great

Then the sunlight dips, less I’ve learned

The more I see the pythons and the lams

Do not know what’s wrong with me

Sours in the cup

But when I walk into the room

I do not light it up, fight

But I stay down, with my demons

I stay down, with my demons

But I stay down, with my demons

I stay down, with my demons.