Deerhunter

wasted our lives we wasted our time i trickled out creek would run dry steam would rise i tried i tried i tried i tried.... 

Many years ago I happened on a place The shadows hanging low I could make out his face In an ancient mist They gazed into the flame Around a dying one They chanted out a name They looked up to the sky Reciting ancient rites The trees began to sway...

I lived twice after my suicide In the future or the past, I could not decide Which one I hate the most My body has become a sacramental host When you're once the son of god and you're still unemployed Offered up salvation, surrender to the void Perspect...

come for me you cover me come for me comfort me come for me cover me comfort me comfort me i had a dream no longer to be free i want only to see four walls made of concrete six by six enclosed soon we're on video oh oh oh feed me twice a da...

My home, anywhere expect no comforts save for air Take it anyway I could leave or I could stay Wouldn't matter much to me, much to me My home, it's so cold, air-conditioned to the bone Take me anywhere, I could see a light out there I could see a light up...

Back to the middle This is where love has left me It's an endless cycle Please don't take it away from me Look at me Your hair is falling out now Your two by four You left me doubting Back in the middle Everyone knows your name now It's all acciden...

Send my regards To those who suffer endlessly Send my regards To those who suffer hopelessly 

What's in the basement Cool trick It's twilight now No fake shit What's in the basement Cool trick Superimpose Twilight effect What's in the basement What's in the basement I'm in the basement What's in the basement I'm in the basement With qui...

Dream A little dream All about the basement scene. I don't want to wake up I don't want to wake up I don't want to wake up No If you've seen The light turn gold Come out tonight And we'll get stoned I don't want to get old I don't want to get old I don't want...

when your range is off when you call that complete your finished task was a burden I'll give you that to concede if you wear a mask if you wear a badge if you're lost in the curtains of time you'll be erased sleep tight, gold night protect my brain...

Christ Or credit What's the price? What's the edit? I'm alive I don't credit The source I just drive And then the fog rolls in And then they're blind My enemies They're just trying Trying to kill me Breaking the waves Again and though I try The...

Crucified on a cross In front of all my closest friends 

Crucified on a cross In front of all my closest friends Crucified on a cross In front of all my closest Crucified on cross revealed With finest wood and rope so thick My arms, my wrists would bleed for weeks My arms, my wrists would bleed for Crucifi...

Even though you're gone I still carry on It's the same big sea, it's the same to me To carry on, carry on I will stay strong, I will stay strong I set you free, I set you free, now run along, now run along In the midnight hour I will lose my power I will...

Bad circulation Become impatient Too long we've waited For an end for me Shame on your doctors Oh, how they fooled us Oh, how they lured us Into their trucks, oh Cold cave in winter Ice swings would splinter Ashes and cinder Caressed and [?] Don...

I was sick, I was dead Lay my head on the cement bed I had a few good years But they don't know Come on now, don't leave me hangin' 'Cause I wanna get down or I - I'll start believing' what they said In my heart, I don't believe it And if I go ahead I know t...

My greatest fear, I fantasized: The days were long, the weeks flew by Before I knew I was awake My days were through, it was too late My greatest fear, I organized Into something more realized And now what’s left I get to spend Knowing that its about to...

when you were young and your excitement showed but as time goes by does it outgrow is that the way things go forever reaching for the goal forever fading black comes a glow walking free come with me far away every day when you were young you ne...

I got a message Can you guess what it said? Drive alone Drive straight home I did as instructed Closed my door and locked it Disappearing ink But the words still sting Sat and wrote a letter I described the weather And the scene Remembering I fo...

Come on, little boy - I am your friend And I understand the pain you're in. You've seen your mom come - Come home dreaming. In the rain when you wash - You can't fade it. Come on, little boy. You don't need to cry. You don't need to cry your ey...

In the world So many Useless bodies So much traffic In the world So many Useless bodies Please consider All the couples kissing The children missing The corpses rotting In the cities spotting the globe In the world So many Useless bodies So m...

Dream captain take me on your ship I've been feeling like I'm goona be sick I've been landlocked for too many weeks I've been feeling like I'm weak, yeah I'm a poor boy from a poor family There's nobody left to take care of me, so Dream captain take me...

I don't ever want to go Back again to the old folks' home I don't want to have to stay Where they don't remember love's adjacent home But I've seen you You looked right through me Those ropes can't keep you away There's no ropes on Tuesdays Dreaming...

Do you recall waking up on a dirty couch in the grey fog And the grey dog barking down the street? Columns shake your feet Beneath your feet. Do you recall - your face was white as all? Do you bone the sheets? Do you think of me? Your long lost friend...

Ollie off the sidewalk Watch your brother bleeding Take him by the hand and Lead him to the slipstream Famous last words Famous last words Famous last words Famous last words Bring you to the vortex Watch your skin erupting Nothing can be said no...

i woke up in the middle of the night i called out i called your name patiently, patiently i called out why do i dream so often of his body when his body will decay his flesh will be fluorescent grey his flesh will be fluorescent grey patiently...

I forgot my book At the fountain stairs At a chapter on symmetry Nobody cares And I had a smoke While I traced the squares Put my finger to concrete Felt the autumn air When I look around I can feel it spinning Feet on the ground Head on the ceiling Sun on m...

No one ever talked to me Now I've forgotten how to speak A problem with my chemistry Now I can't sleep and I won't eat As soft as a strangers hand I counted every grain of sand I walked every inch of land, I know So strong, I know So strong, I know...

i take what i can, i give what i have left i take by the hand what i have felt what i see (skulls pressed flesh on flesh) 

There was no connecting my actions with words In the bright sunlight the movement of birds The car ride home was blinded again The light would not focus, the light would not bend There's no use calling, I know what you'd say Over and over, it ended today...

Only bored as I get older Find the ways to (cult) Cult of time Only bored as I get older Find new ways to spend my time I'm a gold digging man Find my money, find my land I'm a gold digging man I won't rest 'til I buy your land Sweetness cums suffe...

In the beginning the world was a map Out through the back door and into the trap Home is an echo reflecting a place I disappeared then and without a trace I was arranged to leave on that day There were complications, I've chosen to stay I saw the curtai...

Take my hand and pray with me, My final days in company, The devil now has come for me, and helicopters circling the scene. And I pray for rest. Could you pray for us? We know he loves you the best. The light's inside my cave. I'm tired of my cave. Oh these...

It pays to kill anyone who has information In the park we hide behind rocks We urinate on rocks until the sun comes up Encrypted in flesh, concrete soaked in sweat We lived in Lake Somerset It was south of Dallas Highway, just east of a drained lake Or...

I believe my head is on straight I've been given this chance To make things great I believe I can focus Reel in the air I know I can I can I believe the sun will rise In the east now I believe we will find That elusive peace now I can't believe the...

Well I was sick and dangerous I am the queen of bass And I was suffering But I was a regular Bored to death Then I was luck I was arrested I would make an arrest I threw the blood spots Across the moon I was just bones Yeah I barely tried They alw...

I opened up my aim I put cotton to flame I saw the city lanes Mirrored in falling rain Seems like new Seems like new And so the skeletons Had left their work undone Nowhere to hide their skin Back to the crypt again Be like you Be like you 

kids drinking gin on the, the front lawn the kids see that man walking down the dirt road these kids see the sky and they think of him dressed in flames kids walk behind, slowly stalk, that old man to get older still to get older still to get older stil...

I'm living my life, I'm living my life I'm living my life, I'm living my life I'm living my life, I'm living my life I'm living my life, I'm living my life I’m off the grid, I’m out of range And the amber waves of grain are turning grey again The darken...

Did you stick with me? Let me jog my memory I see you leaving Oh, don't forget your TV It's not a house anymore It's not a house anymore It's not a house anymore It's not a house anymore That October He came over every day The smell of loose leaf Joints on j...

All I've seen All I've seen Try to describe it In the time of all of it Try not to come to bed Warm and I might slip I might do I might Try to describe it all In your time end it all All I do it may be not it On and on it could be m...

my only boy couldn't leave his lady well come on boy let me say that a if you wanna be with me yeah i can be your home away come on god hear my said prayer if you can send me an angel if you can't send me an angel send me something else instead send...

I was born of concrete, born out of chemistry It comes out of chaos, blooms in infinity New animals born of concrete, born out of chemistry New Animals, concrete, born in to circuitry I was six when six was surface Yeah, time moves forwards and backwards...

So long to the the days you grow sad of And you try to find Not much for you to hold The more That you hold the The more you feel alone And wait Until you can wait Until you can wait Until you can wait no more So long to the the days you come to...

Finding the fluorescence in the junk By night illuminates the day Finding ancient language in the blood Fading a little more each day And if you've got a lot of pain You remember how to speak And if you gather all the rain Yeah it's still coming down i...

i had dreams that frightened me awake i happened to escape but my escape would never come would never come would never come would never come i had plans to go away for days to try and risk a pace that haunts my days that haunts my days haunts m...

I was spinning my big wheels They were stuck and I was stuck to them The night was clear and I was queer And I was only of age one year I was on the cusp of a breakthrough When they took me out and stuck it in It went so deep, man it leaves scars you relate...

Only when I dream but there's no way out You learn to talk, you learn to shout Focus on the depth that was never there Eliminate what you can't repair Nothing ever happened to me Nothing ever happened to me Nothing ever happened to me Life just passing...

Oceans of time Oceans of time connect Each go to a death Oceans of death 

I was the corpse that spiraled out I was the corpse that spiraled out Into phantom hallways I was the corpse that spiraled out 

Operation, cover your ears You're not gonna like what you're gonna hear I hate you, I hate you I hate you, I hate you Operation, you're not here You can't love what you can't like What you fear, what you fear What you fear, what you fear Operation,...

Take me on a trip, man I'll never get sick Take wherever you go and I won't complain along the way Well I've been waiting so long to say bye! bye! bye! This town ain't give me nothing but bald head and trouble Well if it can't be better, if it can'...

Jumping Your hands are like ice picks You're the king of rich kids Just once Creation of deathly You're the king of rich kids Your dreams are x-rated You're seduced by credit cards Ponds like hands grow Jumping You're the king of rich kids And yo...

For a month I was punk I remembered all my drunk Younger days in a daze I would spend my empty days For a week I was weak I was humbled on my knees Pray to God: "Make it stop Help me find some relief" For a year I was queer I had conquered all my fears Not a...

Two weeks of misery Capture my heart and destroy me Destroy my mind and my body Invade like a disease and conquer me My wild exchange could not believe I know I can't stop breathing I've seen the light I want to see I hold the hand that beckoned me D...

I am saved, I'm Saved And, oh, would you believe me? On the third day I felt his presence near me I know they won't believe me, but I've got favorite memories, but I am saved, i'm saved And, could you believe it? You won't regret If you, choose to believe it...

Wind in my sails, I lived for days. No water, no food. It was good. I didn't mind, no. Nowhere to be. Nothing to see - except me. Only fear Can make you feel lonely out here. You learn to accept whatever you can get. When there is no law You've done nothing...

Mrs. Hemmings was OAO Pretty soon we were all OAO We were captured by victorian vampires With elaborate designs With elaborate designs This is the land of OAO This is the land of OAO This is the land of OAO This is the land of OAO I was saved by old...

I'm not mad about anything You forced on me a hopeless dream I'd been looking for one true thing Too numb to see I'd been sleepwalking Too horrified to see When a decade doesn't get you down You're flying now but you'll come back down And with both yo...

I was born already nailed to the cross I was born with a feeling, I was lost I was born with the ability to talk I was born with a snake-like walk I was trippin' now on a city cloak They were separated then with sunlight shrouds I was born with a crippl...

So I woke up in a radio freeze Occupied by a Couple of girls I knew from Way back when where Oh, I had my face like the ocean So I'd radiate but Too much radiation I walk around like a walker Always choosing where to go And where to be Oh, radiatio...

What direction should we choose We're lost and still confused I walk into the sun With you the only one Who understood the ways The hours became days The weeks turn into months We walk into the sun So glad to have a guide Less lonely for the ride A...

I tried to keep him straight ever since the day he was born he came out a little late maybe that's where frustration's born my head was like a wound when they called me and said "it's happened much too soon" took two bullets to the brain my kid brothe...

Take care Lift the guard and you might find Your place in that life A place where you found hope There’s nothing more than the fog from the dry ice burning Corpses turning Take care Lift the guard you won’t be lonely Too much longer Too much longer…...

No cigarette breaks, no sex, parking lot Play by weakness, play academic rock Tech school Tech school So sick of tech school, can't play by the rules Vacate forum, no sex, bus stop Tech School Tech School Tech School No cigarette breaks, no sex, p...

Open up my thoughts tell me if you see some meaning Take me all apart So that I can see the pieces And I could walk for miles And on every street is the same scene Follow the telephone wires until i feel this air beneath me Oh and if you don't min...

Go to the shore and, pray for the sea Go towards the mirror and, pray that you'll see Someone else Downtown, go downtown Go to the waves of grain in the center of the state Go away Go to a parking lot, sit on the ground, and cry You'll never know why S...

I've looked I've seen, I've seen... I've looked I will always see, I've seen... For the miracles Of youth I've looked I will always see, I've seen. When friends go Away for a while They always Come back But now if friends Go away for a while T...

Stay, I don't want you to stay Stay, I need you to stay Stay, I don't want you to stay Stay, I need you to stay In my room, oh, it's true Stay, I don't want you to stay Stay, I need you to stay Stay, I don't want you to stay Stay, I need you to stay...

I haunted a basketmaker's shop Spending days ripping pictures from magazines Taping them to the walls of my prison I remember walking by the sand Each knob represented a different frequency range And I remember holding the hand of the skeleton prince And...

We had some conflicts With Prince Erudite Laid out on spreadsheets And In the parking lot Of my high school Cheap acid Soft focus I was sixteen I was sixteen I was sixteen I was sixteen And in the parking lot Of my high school Cheap acid Soft...