Hindsight - Built To Spill

Hindsight’s giving me

Too much memory

There’s too much never seen

But it’s always there because it’s everywhere

Taking my own advice

Worked out for me nice

But now I come to find

The tricks we play with human brains

They don’t want to think about the other side

Is that grass just greener cause it’s fake?

Cause that’s all that we’ve been told since we were five years old

Is that all we’ll ever know?

Hindsight brings me down

It keeps me on the ground

And though I’m never proud

I wouldn’t dare if you weren’t there

Thing with getting up

Feels like giving up

Feels like not enough

You eat a crumb and waste a loaf

They don’t want to talk about the other side

Where the grass was greener than they said

Cause this doesn’t bring to mind what I’d expect to find

They must be colorblind

What about Canada?

This paradise

Of pines and ice

Morning comes in freight ships while you’re sleeping

Bad into ideas was no surprise

We’ll wait 'till the wild has rights, then never lock doors at night

And kiss all those wars goodbye