The National: Best Lyrics
my favourite 20 lyrics, very hard to narrow it down but these ones in
particular really stuck out for me. |
| 20 | The National
Demons
''When I walk into a room, I do not light it up.
FUCK'' |
| 19 | Looking For Astronauts
''You know you have a permanent piece
Of my medium-sized American heart'' |
| 18 | The Geese Of Beverly Road
''Hey love, we'll get away with it
We'll run like we're awesome, totally genius'' |
| 17 | Little Faith
''We'll play nuns versus priests until somebody cries'' |
| 16 | Secret Meeting
''Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you?
Didn't anybody tell you this river's full of lost sharks?'' |
| 15 | Mr November
''I won't fuck us over, I'm Mr. November'' |
| 14 | Lit Up
''My bodyguard shows her revolver to anyone who asks'' |
| 13 | All The Wine
''I'm a birthday candle in a circle of black girls
God is on my side 'cause I'm the child bride'' |
| 12 | Start A War
''You were always weird but I never had to hold you by the edges
Like I do now'' |
| 11 | Graceless
''God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine when I went missing
Just let me hear your voice, just let me listen'' |
| 10 | Don't Swallow The Cap
''I have only two emotions,
Careful fear and dead devotion.
I can't get the balance right.
Throw my marbles in the fight.'' |
| 9 | Lucky You
''You own me
There's nothing you can do
You own me
You own me
Lucky you'' |
| 8 | Lemonworld
''I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party'' |
| 7 | Apartment Story
We'll stay inside 'till somebody finds us, do whatever the TV tells us
Stay inside our rosy-minded fuzz for days |
| 6 | Conversation 16
''I tell you miserable things after you are asleep'' |
| 5 | Mistaken For Strangers
''Oh, you wouldn't want an angel watching over, surprise, surprise, they wouldn't
wanna watch
Another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults'' |
| 4 | Brainy
''I've been dragging around from the end of your coat for two weeks
You keep changing your fancy, fancy mind every time I decide to let it go
I was up all night again, boning up and reading the American dictionary
You'll never believe me what I found, think I better follow you around'' |
| 3 | Guest Room
''They'll find us here
Here, here in the guest room
Where we throw money at each other and cry
Oh, my'' |
| 2 | Karen
''It's a common fetish for a doting man
To ballerina on coffee table, cock in hand'' |
| 1 | Slow Show
''I wanna hurry home to you
Put on a slow, dumb show for you and crack you up
So you can put a blue ribbon on my brain
God I'm very, very frightening, I'll overdo it'' |
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