Guster - Ooh La La Album Lyrics

We skipped our feet down Winter Street
In fuzzy gold street light
We are not young but still need fun
Twice in a lifetime

But your cup is full
And your heart is occupied
But is that the truth?
Who's ever satisfied?

Nothing's pure as something new
A perfect sheet of white
With clarity we can part these seas
Just once in a lifetime

But your plate is full
And your heart is occupied
We chase down this thrill
The cat and the butterfly

And then you gesture with the slightest intention
The colors swim into a perfect collection
Your eyes go wide
That's why you came here tonight my love
And I, I don't really mind

Atoms crash with weight and mass
Through dangerous timelines
Heat and light make dynamite
The fight of a lifetime

But my aim is true
And my heart is occupied
You're in here too
Cause I know you realize, love

I feel you bristle at the slightest connection
As if it's fated on a course of correction
Our blood beats wild
Why don't you just stay the night my love?
Cause I, I don't really mind

Love, it's been a long, long, long time
A moment to shine, shine, shine, shine
Cause it's been a long, long, long time
A moment to shine, shine, shine, shine
Shine!

Do you remember Montreal?
We made last call at the bar
They spoke to you in French and me in English

Well I remember holding on
And how we stayed up till the sun
"Harvest Moon" played on forever

Hey babe it's alright
Everything in it's own time
I cross my heart and hope to die
And take a trip to another life

Back when we were stars
When we were stars

We're stoned by the lake
You called me his name by mistake
What a funny way to break us open

But I'm not laughing not this time
Keep your secrets, I'll keep mine
Lovers turning back to strangers

Which one is that lullaby
Where everything is gonna be alright?
I cross my heart and hope to die
And take a trip to another life

Back when we were stars
When we were stars

Come back to me
Come back to me
This is a bad one

Stay close to me, stay close to me
I surrender

How did we get so far from back when we were stars?
How did we get so far from back when we were stars?

How did we get so far from back when we were stars?
How did we get so far from back when we were stars?

Come back to me
Come back to me

How did we get so far?
Back when we were stars

Stay close to me
Stay close to me I surrender

Whispered devotions
Our bodies in motion
We laid our hands in mud and made bricks for a temple
Wrote our names in the clay

Time went like water
A son and a daughter
Frame by frame defined by moment in moments
The wings of a bird
The tongue of a snake

So we've come this far
If we sit and wait
Well we got all day
All day

Those weathered devotions
Are not magic potions
The stains remain and remind us of monument moments

In the bricks of our temple
Our names still in clay
It was there that I told you

Well we've come this far
So let's sit and wait
Cause we got all day
All day

Just like I told you
Forever I'd hold you
It's been half our lives
And it's made me great
And we've got all day
Yeah we got all day
All day

Just like I told you

God I'm afraid
Every little thing's got me spinning out
I tell you you're safe
Shine a bit of light in the underground

Tell you you're my kind
Tell you you're my kind
Hold my hand until you're up and steady
Hold my head until you're up and ready

Cause I know what's next
I can see the twist of the final act
Puff out my chest
Punch drunk hero in a paperback

Tell you you're my kind
Tell you you're my kind

Hold my hand until you're up and steady
Hold my head until you're up and ready
Hold my hand until you're up and steady

Nothing ever comes from nothing
And oh you're my kind!

Come and tell me you're my kind
Come and tell me you're my kind
Come and tell me you're my kind
Come and tell me you're my kind
Come and tell me you're my kind
Come and tell me you're my kind

Hold my hand until I'm up and steady
Hold my head until I'm up and ready
Hold my hand until I'm up and steady

I bought a ticket but the train didn't stop
Ended up walking all the way singing "Ooh La La"
I made it home and put the radio loud
Was just static but still turned me on

Well the world brought us here
If we let it now all good things reappear

It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright

Keep going
Keep going
To the light

It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright

Slow motion on a video tape
We had magic, it still turns me on
And at the end of this dark night
Which way to go
I may just take a walk to the bright side, the bright side

Well the world brought us here
If we let it now, all good things reappear

It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright

Keep going
Keep going
To the light
It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright

Keep going
To the light

Keep going
Keep going
To the light

It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright
It's ok I'm alright

We found acid on the museum lawn
Waited an hour till the feelings came on
The girl at the gate, "Sir, is there something wrong?"
Gauguin, Cezanne

The Richmond Bridge dropped out of the fog
The redwood towers scattered their song
This is the closest I have felt to God
Wax off, wax on

Just for a moment, everlasting love
Just for a sip of everlasting love

The hostel was quiet, the ceiling calm
The tiny fairies had all gone home
Is there anyone here at all?
Check, check check check check check check check check the microphone

Just for a moment, everlasting love
Just for a taste of everlasting love
Sit on the cliff of everlasting love
Just for a moment, everlasting love

Just for a moment, everlasting love
Just for a moment, everlasting love

I had a vision
I heard a boom in the sky
I heard a voice from the other side

She said to me,
"We're built of opposites-wild and bold extremes"
A rise and fall
Now a jubilee
We built the world this far but it's not the world we need

Tell me witness tree
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see

It's rotten, forgotten, abandoned
When will she return?
Roots in the ether, dig deeper
Ophelia's madness will return

She spoke to me
Said, "We're built of opposites-wild and bold extremes"
A rise and fall
And now a jubilee
We built a world this far but it's not the world we need

Tell me witness tree
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see
Tell me what you see

It's rotten
Forgotten
Abandoned
Ophelia

Black balloon
You pull the air out of this room
Up to no good
But I'm not frightened, not of you
You black balloon
The earth, sun and moon

I'm not worried about changing
It's what we're put here to do
Something is better than nothing
I'll go with you
If you'll ask me to

We'll fly
I'm beside you black balloon

Black balloon
I'm not scared of what you do
Cause I made you
Were we ever understood?
We black balloons

I've been waiting for changes
It's what we're put here to do to
Someone is better than no one
So just ask me to
And I'll go with you

We'll fly
We'll fly
I'm beside you black balloon

Boy, I know who you are
Your skin is my skin as your blood is my blood

Nothing's wrong
It's just a celebration
I can't just keep them waiting
I'll miss you when I'm gone

Let me go
Here comes the elevator
I hoped I'd never say it
But I'll miss you when I'm gone

Girl, I feel where you're coming from
Pure imagination, you're love made of love
Fourth of July plays in my mind
Gunpowder sky burned in blue red and white
Ashes to ashes and dust gone to dust

Nothing's wrong
It's just a celebration
I can't just keep them waiting
Gonna miss you when I'm gone

Let me go
Here comes the elevator
I hoped I'd never say it
Gonna miss you when I'm gone

Miles and miles go by from this window seat
The lies we tell ourselves just to fall asleep
It's hard to know exactly when it changed
WIth all the puzzle pieces out of place
Everything that's good will come again
They had their time but now it's over

Bah ba-ba-ba-bah
Maybe we're alright ba-ba-ba-bah
We're just one day older
Surprise, surprise

Chasing fireflies as the sky turned gray
Trapped in mason jars as they flash and fade
The church around the corner has a sign
"The end is near but help is right inside"
Whatever gets you through the night
They had their time but now it's over
You've got to take a photograph over your shoulder

Bah ba-ba-ba-bah
Maybe we're alright ba-ba-ba-bah
We're just one day older
Surprise, surprise
Surprise, surprise
Just close your eyes

Miles and miles go by
Miles and miles go by

Maybe we're alright
Maybe we're alright

Maybe we're alright
Maybe we're alright

Bah ba-ba-ba-bah
Bah ba-ba-ba-bah
Bah ba-ba-ba-bah
Bah ba-ba-ba-bah

We're alright.