Local Natives

Caught in summer, lazy summer. The perfect days, blur together. Playing in sun, hurling cans, liquored up, full of care. I've loved and loved and lift your hand, finally burn skin it down. If I'm still in love in the morning. If I'm still in lov...

The desk where you sit inside of a Frame made of wood I keep those chopsticks you had from when You taught abroad in Japan I love it all so much I call I want you back I did not know you as well As my father knew you Every question you took the Time to sit a...

I can see the words as they come out your mouth Black balloons form into a poison cloud Hold me down and bring me back up again Until I can't, I can't tell the difference Circling vultures always overhead Force your hand Every day is life or death Ho...

Oh no, I'm dying wrong I can read it in the whites And the thing is, I knew it before I reopened my eyes And if I didn't know to be afraid Their faces make me sure that I do now As I sit and wait As I sit and wait Oh no, I'm dying wrong But I'm stil...

We were standing at forsythe and Bowery. Flowers and painted forehead Trying to forget. You can't tell if the ceilings rising or if the floor's falling out. I remember sunrise without sleep Godlike and cowering Taller stacks of stone Is all we'll ha...

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh Waiting for My words to catch like I'm trying To strike a match that's soaking wet See through skull See through skin Leave all the lights on Can't see out But they see in Stare down my nose, watching The color change f...

We're running through the aisles Of the churches still in style Does this city have a curfew? Don't you know it's good to see you too The riders on the chan de lise We are the tourists in the cafes We drank our wine along the river Not believing where we were...

Cards and quarters means to ends Surgeon General warns against Safe in the knowledge A short walk back Punch-line I ruin But we both laugh Leaves steeping longer Knowing glance Make our appearance Our minds have gone back home Brave in her movemen...

I haven't stopped your smoking yet So I'll share your cigarette Just to feel it in my fingers Walk around 'til 3 a.m. Tell me what I know again To keep myself from second guessing All my silver dreams bring me to you Hold the summer in your hands 'Til the s...

[Verse 1] Time stands still and then one day it's gone Where did it go? Where did I go? We couldn't wait to grow old But I can't fight the feeling anymore You know I tried I know you tried We're still waiting to arrive [Chorus] Ooh, how much is enou...

The day after I had counted down All of your breaths Down until there were none, were none, were none, were none. A hummingbird crashed right In front of me and I understood All you did for us. You gave, and gave, and gave, and gave. Ohhh, every night...

she flew across the sea we talked on a small screen a cubism dream the most beautiful squares i'd ever seen the canvas was free a gift good mother gave to me we joked at how they talked so differently i will never know what had rot my heart it just ca...

Finally what you came for Finally what you hoped to find Racing home from her house Looking out for black and white Dark days in the summer A million ways to tow the line Can't wait Holy other Might as well be the seventh son Ooh, it goes hand in han...

[Verse 1: Ryan Hahn] Ellie Alice and me On the train, under the channel Come on, come on and trade me seats Cause I can't sit facing backwards She reads a dying magazine And I'm so tired I can't sleep [Chorus] On the other side, will I be reminded? P...

Looking at all the people While they're looking at you If only they were a mirror and you could do what you want to No one, no one, no one, no one No one, no one, no one, no one Has ever made me feel the way you do Like you do, like you do, like you do...

I think we better listen to these kids We can't keep pretending we know what we're doing I can't keep pretending I'm afraid If you'll sit and listen I'll tell you a secret We can do whatever we want We can say whatever we mean I have waited so long, Mr...

Powder in your hair Staples in your jeans Fireworks at the water You were holy A styrofoam cup Held between your teeth You're telling me how you're going to outlive your body What you said I wrote it down, It won't say, it won't speak the same Maybe I know be...

Hey now, is it the dawn or the end? The hours we talked You wished we'd stopped Acting like it's nothing at all In the first act, your gun on the wall The kick back into your Shoulder was always hard to ignore Hey! Even if I'm on your side I saw the...

Ingrid, help me, keep my, dreams, dreams. But, it seems, hollow without my sleep, sleep. You never close your, diamond mind. Memorize the ceiling, every night. In your, make it hard to leave, leave. Here for Ingrid sinking these, these ships. You n...

Love I'm already ten steps ahead Took the wrong train and I fell Head over heels in a moment Then you're gone Blank stare If you're bored, you're boring Unaware Could I get a warning? Love I can see rain coming in Like jellyfish limbs from a dista...

[Verse 1] Do you feel like a shit turning up sometimes? (Ahh) Just pierce through the jungle of your mind (Ahh) Do you feel like a shit turning up sometimes? (Ahh) Just pierce through the jungle of your mind (Ahh) [Pre-Chorus 1] Stay, I'll make sure...

[Verse 1] In a thousand ways I feel the weight of I feel the weight of Carolina's pain What's left to take from? What's left to take from? [Chorus] Closer now they come Farther now I run Eyes the other way Violence without cause Hours 'til the daw...

Face stained in the ceiling Why does it keep saying, I don't have to see you right now I don't have to see you right now Digging like you can bury Something that cannot die We could wash the dirt off our hands now Keep it from living underground Lazy summer...

Only son What more are you hoping for What you love Is more than you can afford I know they come out the woodwork As soon as your head's wrong But too much time makes heavy hands And lifting up finger's tough Oh and if I go I won't be back again And...

Hate runs through my blood. What matter are words in love, but my heart always left above. I've got you believe you now. I thought I'd never be shut down, but girl I'm black and blue, so beaten down for you. Well, I'm beaten down and blue. Don'...

Leaving to escape Windmills on the southern plain Hum your name 49 palms muddled over my words Wait for more Sleep alone Start all over Visions flood my mind So the sins come alive In the blurring light Thought I saw your face Watching broken fingers place...

Save me From the prime of my life And I’ll try To carry you home tonight Annie Over Kansas in heels Like a child Laughing at endless skies I will wait for you At the end love Let your past lives through Then you wake up Take me To Dorothy Chand...

When the sunlight covers me I'll let a lifetime go And all we want is a love to lean on And we just learned how to breathe Then L.A. falls into the sea And all we want is a love to lean on We won't give up Paradise Heaven wants us alive Psycho lover...

People, they say Higher high Why do they go Lower lower? I need to know Do I want to believe? Trying to climb Higher high The weight of it all On your shoulders Palms up to show That I've dug in too deep I'll make up my mind When a sea of years p...

My king, I'm humbled before you, I bow Moods like you're pulled by the moonlight, somehow How is the language we're speaking the same? Shape shifter have you discovered a change? Why does the soul hallucinate? I've got control, I shift my shape Your eyes, t...

Why didn't I say anything until now? So much is said without a sound Water so calm and once so pure, undisturbed Standing for so long the color turns Their work is so hard, their work is so hard We never felt the sticky thread The spider webs Their bal...

Cold toes, new sheets Welcomed all the same We know if we go It's only temporary Went away, holiday Wish they'd linger on They'll think what they will We'll stay where we have gone The glaring lamp's on Her job is well done Half asleep I'm only ha...

I climbed to the top of a hill But I had just missed the sun And although the descending arc was gone Left behind were the traces that always follow along The most beautiful colors chase the sun They wrap her trail in a taunting gesture That seems to si...

You always hated every gorgeous coffee curl You could never see that, That to him they meant the world I am letting, you know I am ready, to feel you I am letting, you know I am ready, to feel you I keep on calling just to get the machine I've got to...

[Pre-Chorus] I want to start again Sunsets, new babbling man Holding my sign Manhattan on the rocks Red handed, never caught Hoping you'll try [Chorus] Mine is a chrome palace Lost in Los Angeles I know that I'll make it through I want to start aga...

Warning sign Warning sign I hear it, but I pay no mind Hear my voice Hear my voice It's saying something It's not very nice Pay attention Pay attention I'm talking to you And I hope you're concentrating I've got money now I've got money now C'mon baby C'mon...

I've been going down, down into the river, baby Listen to the sound, it's something only God knows You figure it out, I can't stay Water's in the clouds, is my life about to change? Who knows, who cares? So we took a van down to Colorado Where we ran i...

Oh some evil spirit Oh some evil this way comes They told me how they fear it Now they're placing it on their tongues Oh to see it with my own eyes Oh to see it with my own eyes No food or water for the better part of ten months Quietly he sat between...

In the summer, vicious summer This is nothing like I thought it would look You say, "Who am I to blame?" "Who am I to blame?" Spill yourself at her feet Stamp me out flickering Can you remind me which are the ones that sting? They all look the same to me, L...

The lane next over is always faster And you wait so long until you're so bothered But right after you complete your merge The lane you started in gets going And while you wait for your luck to change All you can think of is where you started ooooh do-do...

You and I, we were always strong It was enough to keep me on Believe me. And I woke up with my green eyes blue And all I think about is you And it feels When did your love, when did your love go cold? The closer I get, the farther I have to go To pla...