the national, sleep well beast | lyric starters
feel free to change pronouns as preferred. warning for mentions of drugs, alcohol, and death.
meet me in the stairwell in a second.
nobody else will be there.
can you remind me the building you live in?
goodbyes always take us half an hour.
i donāt need you, i donāt need you.
besides, i barely ever see you anymore and when i do it feels youāre only halfway there.
the day i die, where will we be?
iād rather walk all the way home right now than to spend one more second in this place.
letās just get high enough to see our problems.
iām always thinking about useless things.
iām mixing weed with wine.
i canāt stay here and i canāt come back.
maybe i listen more than you think.
why are you hiding from me?
weāre in a different kind of thing now.
i thought that this would all work out after a while.
i thought you and i might be okay.
iād like to spin a while around the copperwood tree.
thereās something about her eyes.
dim the lights a little lower.
this must be the genius weāve been waiting years for.
iāve been trying to see where weāre going, but youāre so hard to follow.
i donāt think weāre getting anywhere any time soon.
you just keep saying so many things that i wish you wonāt.
iāve been talking about you to myself cause thereās nobody else.
and i want what i want, and i want everything.
they all have something against me.
i keep re-reading the same lines always up at 5am every morning.
i have no positions, no point of view or vision.
iām just trying to stay in touch with anything iām still in touch with.
i swear you got a little bit taller since i saw you.Ā
it wasnāt so bad, i wasnāt that sick.
i wanted to ask if you could stay.
iām gonna keep you in love with me for a while.
go back to sleep, let me drive, let me think, let me figure it out.
iāll tell you about it some time.
i came back to see if you were here, but everything was different.
iāll still destroy you some day.