Passion Pit - Gossamer Album Lyrics

All these kinds of places
Make it seem like it's been ages
Tomorrow's sun with buildings scrape the sky
I love this country dearly
I can feel the latter clearly
But never thought I'd be alone to try

Once I was outside Penn Station
Selling red and white carnations
We were still alone
My wife and I
Before we married, saved my money
Brought my dear wife over
Now I want to bring my family state side

But off the boat they stayed a while
Then scattered across the coast
Once a year I'll see them for a week or so at most
I took a walk

Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
I take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk

Practice isn't perfect
With the market cuts and loss
I remind myself that times could be much worse
My wife won't ask me questions
And there's not so much to ask
And she'll never flaunt around an empty purse

Once my mother-in-law came
Just to stay a couple nights
Then decided she would stay the rest of her life
I watch my little children, play some board game in the kitchen
And I sit and pray they never feel my strife

But then my partner called to say the pension funds were gone
He made some bad investments
Now the counts are overdrawn

I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk

Honey it's your son I think I borrowed just to much
We had taxes we had bills
We had a lifestyle to front
And tonight I swear I'll come home
And we'll make love like we're young
And tomorrow you'll cook dinner
For the neighbors and their kids
We could rip apart those socialists
And all their damn taxes
You'll see I am no criminal
I'm down on both bad knees
I'm just too much a coward
To admit when I'm in need

I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
Take a walk, oh-oh-oh
I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
I took a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk
Take a walk, take a walk, take a walk

Can you remember ever having any fun
'cause when it's all said and done i always believed we were
But now I'm not so sure, oh oh oh oh oh oh
I drink a gin and take a couple of my pills
And my parade will give you chills
Oh honey don't give me up, oh oh oh oh
I know we've had enough

You should go if you want to
Yeah go if you want to
I'll be alright, be alright
Well I've made so many messes
And this love has grown so restless
Your whole life has been nothing but this
I won't let you go unless
I'll be alright
I'll be alright

I'm so self-loathing that it's hard for me to see
Reality from what I dream and no one believes me
No not a single thing
My brain is racing and I feel like I'll explode
You're looking at me from below
This room wasn't made for you
Just go find someone new

You should go if you want to
Yeah go if you want to
I'll be alright, be alright
Well I've made so many messes
And this love has grown so restless
Your whole life has been nothing but this
I won't let you go unless
I'll be alright
I'll be alright

Why do I keep housing all this suffering?
Heads go on now where's my thoughts are stumbling
This party's over, no, it isn't happening
No wind in the sails untill I'm only recovering

You should go if you want to
Yeah go if you want to
I'll be alright, be alright
Well I've made so many messes
And this love has grown so restless
Your whole life has been nothing but this
I won't let you go unless
I'll be alright
I'll be alright

Since my heart is golden
I've got sense to hold in
Tempted just to make an ugly scene
No I'm not as proper, my money's in copper
Ripped down from the brownstones to the street

Listen, I'm your friend (don't quote me)
But not a friend worth noting
Yes, please don't ever note me as your friend

Who says we have cold hearts?
Acting out our old parts
Let's perform our favourite little scene

I get carried away
Carried away from you
And I'm hoping and I'm praying
Cause I'm sorry, sorry about that
Sorry about the things that I said
Always let it get to my head

All your appeal
Once again with feeling
Higher education making sense

Justify your thesis
Certain that you need this
Tell me what your point is in defence

Listen, I don't really know you
And I don't think I want to
But I think I can fake it if you can

And let's agree there's no need
No more talk of money
Let's just keep pretending to be friends

I get carried away
Carried away from you
And I'm hoping and I'm praying
Cause I'm sorry, sorry about that
Sorry about the things that I said
Always let it get to my head
[x2]

Wake up in the morning
Wake up in the evening
Wake up when you want to
'Cause no one's really watching
Well she'll have something to say about it but
We all have problems
We're all having problems
And we've all got something to say

I get carried away
Carried away from you
And I'm hoping and I'm praying
Cause I'm sorry, sorry about that
Sorry about the things that I said
Always let it get to my head
[x2]

(Uh huh)
But you never leave
Oh whoa oh oh
Never (uh huh)
But you never ever leave
Oh whoa oh oh
But you never
No...

Well you're wrapped up in a blanket and you're staring at the floor
The conversation's moderated by the noisy streets below
I never wanna hurt you baby, I'm just a mess with a name and a price
And now I'm drunker than before they told me drinking doesn't make me nice

You never know where some people will go
Yeah some people been hurtin' me
You can tell by look, by the slightest crook
In the neck or the blink of an eye

Well then we'll see what they say and we'll do what they do
But that doesn't mean a goddamn thing
You can listen if you want, you can listen if you don't
Yeah they'll talk, yeah they'll even sing

(Everybody now! Oh oh oh oh oh)

They come singing through the window, singing through the trees
Yeah they're singing through the bright spring leaves

(Everybody now! Oh oh oh oh oh)

Yeah they love you when they need you
But someday you're gonna need to
Find some other kind of place to go, oh

(Uh huh)
But you never leave
Oh whoa oh oh
Never (uh huh)
But you never ever leave
Oh whoa oh oh
But you never
No...

Now you're standing in the kitchen, and you're pouring out my drink
Well there's a very obvious difference, and it's that one of us can think
If there's a bump in the road yeah you'd fix it,
But for me I'll just run off the road
But tonight you've got me cornered, and I haven't got a place to go

You never know where some people will go
Yeah some people been hurtin' me
You can tell by look, by the slightest crook
In the neck or the blink of an eye

Well then we'll see what they say and we'll do what they do
But that doesn't mean a goddamn thing
You can listen if you want, you can listen if you don't
Yeah they'll talk, yeah they'll even sing

(Everybody now! Oh oh oh oh oh)

They come singing through the window, singing through the trees
Yeah they're singing through the bright spring leaves

Everybody now, oh oh oh oh oh (Sing it loud, sing it loud)

Yeah they love you when they need you
But someday you're gonna need to
Find some other kind of place to go, oh
Don't you know?
Oh oh oh oh oh
Oh oh oh oh oh

Well he called the whole thing such a wild mistake
He said he didn't mean no harm
Well it was a big to-do
But nothing else was new
His past checkered like checkerboards in Central park
You do good in the light and the bad in the dark
Good men are scarce and few
They're always passing through

Oh you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
They're all I see
Oh let me be you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
Oh mirrored sea leave me be

Born with a chance that everybody takes
With all risk and hardly any reward
Bounce off the walls of your teens
Like in a pinball machine
Slip-ups in this town are like a sentence to life
Like overheard insults or a cheating wife
And then it's down for the count
The lost that won't be found

Oh you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
They're all I see
Oh let me be you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
Oh mirrored sea leave me be

(Everyone's alone...)

Oh you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
They're all I see
Now let me be, you mirrored sea
Your waves, they're haunting me
Out in the sea, leave me be

Oh on my own where I found you alone
You were caught up in somebody else's mess
And yes I drank all those drinks on my own
My life's become some blurry little quest

And the clock kept ticking slowly
And you leaned over to ask me
If I even had a clue where I was

Well I lied down on your wood floors
And my brain and body took course
And the night ended as though it never was

It all began to feel insane
I want to know where they keep the rain

Sylvia
Right back where you came from
You're a pendulum
Heartbroken and numb but
Sylvia
No one's going to tell you when enough's enough
Enough is enough

Sick to the bone on the steps to my home
The moon shined through the drapery of leaves
To hurt to ignore everyone on my own
Like my true love just to feel some made-up breeze

But as my body crumbled
You walked as I just stumbled
And we spoke only of things made in my head
You never once controlled me
While all the others told me
That if I kept on going I'd be dead

It's not just you who felt the pain
Now tell me where they keep the rain

Sylvia
Right back where you came from
You're a pendulum
Heartbroken and numb but
Sylvia
No one's going to tell you when enough's enough
Enough's always too tough

See what I've done now, I don't understand
She says I screamed and that I raised my hand but
I never meant to wasn't even there
I never meant to I would never dare

Sylvia
Right back where you came from
You're a pendulum
Heartbroken and numb but
Sylvia
No one's going to tell you when enough's enough
Enough is enough

Ballerina, trapped between the walls of her own home
Oh God, Christina
Don't once think that this madness is my fault alone
Now a nightmare's in her hands
Still everyday's another chance

I'm on my way, I'm on my way
Let's get married
I'll buy a ring and then we'll consecrate this messy love

Spinning wildly 'til I finally realise how busy I am
We're both so broken and all I'm hoping
Is that we'll stumble upon our love again
Just believe in me, Christina
All these demons, I can beat 'em

I'm on my way, I'm on my way
Let's get married,
I'll buy a ring and then we'll
Consecrate this messy love

I caught you dancing quietly
It felt like being somebody else
Oh I fell!
It seems like our love is too maddening for everyone else

Let's get married,
I'll buy a ring and then we'll
Consecrate this messy love

I'm on my way, I'm on my way
Let's get married,
I'll buy a ring and then we'll
Consecrate this messy love

Who could love you in the way that you love you?
You're alone darling and there's nothing to argue
Your life evolves to ruin
Everyone's watching all that you're doing
Say your head's turning, maybe you should start running

Hideaway, hideaway
Where they'll never say you cannot stay
Come and play, my hideaway
Someday everything will be okay

You're not strong so you, you can hurt her so badly
You don't mean to, hurting her is too maddening
When you do it's a war in your head
What you mean to say isn't always what's said
Take a deep breath as soon as you let go

Hideaway, hideaway
Where they'll never say you cannot stay
Come and play oh, my hideaway
Someday everything will be okay

What's the point to this, feeling happiness in life?
As we fight off our demise, or love as we play into it's lies, oh honey

Hideaway, hideaway
Where they'll never say you cannot stay
Come and play oh, my hideaway
Someday everything will be okay

Oh mercy, in the leaves so green that brush against my hands
Let the wind sing us our love songs as we sift within your sands
Don't answer any prayers they have, just lift our callous hearts
With the bursting rays of August and your cold raindrops of March

We want a love, a love for us
We want a selfless love, that we can always say we trust
Love has always been a mockery
Of those in love and scared to be lonely
Don't wanna love, don't wanna hurt
If all that loneliness requires just another's comfort
Better off being all on your own, cause there's beauty in being alone

Today we're arguing it's not worth making
Another person as just yours for the taking
Or you're hoping and praying
Won't do more than saying that

Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
It's almost taken me
But now I can see
Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
A selfish little need
You follow or you lead
If we really love ourselves
How do you love somebody else?

A love to us, a love to them
It's just a history repeating itself time and time again
Love is not a veil to hide your voids
All this talk of love just turns to noise
So you want love, a love so tough
That even all these truths don't seem as though they're adding up
Haven't you already had enough?
What's this suffering remind you of?

Someday we'll all agree, it's not worth making
Another person as just yours for the taking
Or you're hoping and praying
Won't do more than saying that

Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
It's almost taken me
But now I can see
Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
A selfish little need
You follow or you lead
If we really love ourselves
How do you love somebody else?

A loved one gone is just another story
What's gone sour once was glory, glory!
If it's romance you want well ask for it then:

"Honey could you put your arms around me so,
Tell me things about you that I wouldn't know
And tell me that you love me like you do
And maybe at most"

Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
It's almost taken me
But now I can see
Love, love, love,
Love is just greed
A selfish little need
You follow or you lead
If we really love ourselves
How do you love somebody else?

Sorry I couldn't be there, I was tied to a rocking chair
I was beat down to a pulp rocking back and forth somewhere
If you knew, if you saw, you'd have said it was the final straw
That my life was bound and tethered on a porch by the shore

But there is no no no no
easy way to tell them so, the things you know
And run run run run
Run they say, they think they know exactly so

It's not right, it's not right
How am I the only one who sees us fight?
What are we? Who are they?
Who says those bastards don't deserve to pay?
Well it's enough, it's just enough 'cause we don't stand a chance
So long you stay around, you're just another song and dance
It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair
Still I'm the only one who seems to care

It's funny that being funny makes you feel like up and running
When your past lingers like rain clouds, casting shadows below
I could live with so many burns, I take all your hope and yearning
But there's no one I want to take me for that petty little rose

I used to glow glow glow glow
Once I had a love to show, a love they know
They're slow slow slow slow
So slow that they never know where I go

It's not right, it's not right
How am I the only one who sees us fight?
What are we? Who are they?
Who says those bastards don't deserve to pay?
Well it's enough, it's just enough 'cause we don't stand a chance
So long you stay around, you're just another song and dance
It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair
Still I'm the only one who seems to care

I know that it's only something
I'm just working with what I've been given
It's not my fault, I'm happy
Don't call me crazy, I'm happy

It's not right, it's not right
How am I the only one who sees us fight?
What are we? Who are they?
Who says those bastards don't deserve to pay?
Well it's enough, it's just enough 'cause we don't stand a chance
So long you stay around, you're just another song and dance
It's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair, it's not fair
Still I'm the only one who seems to care

It's gotten cold in here,
But a solemn warmth draws near
And with a gentle touch,
All these burdens and such fears are wiped clear

Who says you are to stay?
How's this the easier way?
It's far from giving up,
Cowards never say "enough is enough"

And then I'm lifted up,
Out of the crimson tub
The bath begins to drain
And from the floor he prays away all my pain

Who says that God exists?
We can't see icons or myths, but
I believe in you,
Do you believe in me too?
Gabriel

All the things you can't control
Should never destroy your love or hopes
I found a place, I found a place,
I found a place where we belong

Never did I think that I'd be lifted to the whitest cloud
Never did I ever think I'd find all of the things I've found
It's hard to keep on living when your heart weighs bout a million pounds
All I've ever wanted was to be happy and make you proud

Oh, American Blood
In my eyes and on my hands
Such an awful circumstance
And ohh, carry your woes
Just strike a match and then oppose
Bluff in bloom nobody knows

And we're gonna be alright
And you're gonna keep me safe this night
And we're gonna be alright
Everything will be quite alright for
You and me
For you and me
For you and me

Oh, American Blood
How our love always was young
How it always felt so fun
And then, oh, you went to my head
All my limbs instantly dead
Upside down hanging by a thread

And we're gonna be alright
And you're gonna keep me safe this night
And we're gonna be alright
Everything will be quite alright for
You and me
For you and me
For you and me

What's it feel like?
What's it feel like to be alone?
What's it hurt like?
Does it hurt you because you know
That all of your blood
Could wash away the world in one master wave
Could reach the highest peak or the deepest cave

And we're gonna be alright
And you're gonna keep me safe this night
And we're gonna be alright
Everything will be quite alright for
You and me
For you and me
For you and me
For you and me

Every time she traps a lover
World starts screaming words of love
And in that tangle you're just here with me