So Says I-The Shins

[ti:So Says I (Album)] [ar:The Shins] [al:Chutes Too Narrow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]So Says I - The Shins [00:07.25]An address to the golden door [00:08.76] [00:10.34]I was strumming on a stone again [00:11.77] [00:13.63]Pulling teeth from the pimps of gore [00:15.25] [00:16.19]When hatched a tragic opera in my mind [00:19.05] [00:20.18]And it told of a new design in which every soul is duty bound [00:25.14] [00:26.57]To uphold all the statutes of boredom [00:30.63] [00:31.26]Therein lies the fatal flaw of the red age [00:33.83]Because it was nothing like we'd ever dreamt [00:35.31] [00:35.94]Or lust for life had gone away with the rent we hated [00:39.38]And becase it made no money [00:40.90] [00:41.52]Nobody saved no one's life this time [00:43.71] [00:47.65]So we burned all our uniforms [00:49.03] [00:50.96]And let nature take it's course again [00:52.54] [00:54.16]And the big onese just eat all the little ones [00:56.50] [00:57.31]That sends us back to the drawing board [00:59.76] [01:11.80]In my darkest hours [01:13.36] [01:14.75]We have all asked for some [01:16.43] [01:18.21]Angel to come [01:18.96] [01:21.39]Sprinkle his dust all around [01:22.45] [01:25.39]But all our crying voices they can't turn it around [01:29.16] [01:31.35]And you've had some crazy conversations of your own [01:35.08] [01:46.85]We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs [01:49.55] [01:50.09]But we still can't just behave ourselves [01:52.08] [01:53.87]Even if to save our own lives [01:55.62] [01:56.28]So says I: [01:57.40]We are a brutal kind [01:58.54] [02:12.84]'Cause this is nothing like we'd ever dreamt [02:14.45] [02:15.57]Tell Sir Thomas More we've got another failed attempt [02:19.16]'Cause if it makes them money [02:20.36] [02:20.99]They might just give you life this time