The Difference in the Shades - Bright Eyes

Now that it’s June, we’ll sleep out in the garden

And if it rains, we’ll just sink into the mud

Where it is quiet and much cooler than the house is

And there’s no clocks or phones to wake us up

Because I have learned that nothing is as pressing

As the one’s pressing would like you to believe

And I am content to walk a little slower

Because there’s nowhere that I really need to be

And I find that life is easier

When it’s just a blur

With no details to

Confuse who or what or where I was

So when the ending comes

The full regret will seem obscure

But these are days we dream about

When the sunlight paints us gold

And this apartment could not be prettier

As we danced up there alone

And this TV’s old, the color’s fucked

You see the difference in the shades?

But the green’s still close to green, my love

And I believe we are the same

And we’ll stay like this, all gold and green

Light collects, it projects your heart on a movie screen

And if you close your eyes, we will always be

The way we were that night you crawled inside of me

And you slept in my blood the way you sleep now

The quietest hush has consumed this house

And when the doctors have gone and you sweat through the bed

With the pictures and pills they piled around your head

But just rest now

And in a moment you’ll know everything

Was it all a dream?

It’s too vague now to recount

An outline of the one you loved

In a life that was

That no longer will be

Stands above you

As you sleep