Shell Games - Bright Eyes

Took the fireworks and the vanity

The circuit board and the city streets

Shooting star, swaying palm tree

Laid it at the arbiter’s feet

If I could change my mind, change the paradigm

Prepare myself for another life

Forgive myself for the many times

I was cruel to something helpless and weak

But here it come, that heavy love

I’m never going to move it alone

Here it come, that heavy love

Tag it on a tenement wall

Here it come, that heavy love

Someone got to share in the load

Here it come, that heavy love

I’m never going to move it alone

I was dressed in white, touched by something pure

Death obsessed like a teenager

Sold my tortured youth, piss and vinegar

I’m still angry with no reason to be

At the architect who imagined this

For the everyman, blessed Sisyphus

Slipping steadily into madness

Now that’s the only place to be free

But here it come, that heavy love

You’re never going to move it alone

Here it come, that heavy love

Tattooed on a criminal’s arm

Here it come, that heavy love

Someone got to share in the load

Here it come, that heavy love

You’re never going to move it alone

No, I don’t want to play

It’s a shell game, it’s a shell game

Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes

Distorted facts, I could never cope

My private life is an inside joke

No one will explain it to me

We’ll be everything that we ever needed

Everyone, on the count of three!

Everyone, on the count of three!

All together now!

Here it come, that heavy love

We’re never going to move it alone

Here it come, that heavy love

Playing as the cylinder rose

Here it come, that heavy love

I only want to share in the load

Here it come, that heavy love

I’m never going to move it alone