A Perfect Sonnet Lyrics - Every Day And Every Night - Bright Eyes

Lately I've been wishing I had one desire 

Something that would make me never want another 

Something that would make it so that nothing matters 

All would be clear then 

But I guess I'll have to settle for a for a few brief moments 

And watch all dissolve into a single second 

And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet 

Or one foolish line 

Because that's all that you'll get so you'll have to accept 

You are here and then you're gone 

But I believe that lovers should be tied together and 

Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather 

And left there to drown 

Left there to drown 

In their innocence 

But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter 

I read all of the pages and there is still no answer 

Only all that was before I know must soon come after 

That is the only way it can be 

So I stand in the sun 

And I breathe with my lungs 

Trying to spare myself the weight of the truth 

Saying everything you have ever seen was just a mirror 

And you've spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever 

And now you are laying ina bathtum full of freezing water 

Wishing you were a ghost 

But once you knew a girl and you named her lover 

And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer 

But autumn came, she disappeared 

You don't remember where she said she was going to 

But you know that she is gone because she left you a song 

That you don't want to sing 

We're singing I believe that lovers should be chained together 

And thrown into a fire with their songs and letters 

And left there to burn in their arrogance 

But as for me I'm coming to my final failure 

I've killed myself with changes trying to make it better 

But I still ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be 

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers 

And laid entwined together on a bed of clover 

And left there to sleep 

Left there to dream of their happiness