Center Of The World Lyrics - Fevers & Mirrors - Bright Eyes

At the center of the world there is a statue of a girl 

She is standing near a well with a bucket bare and dry 

I went and looked her in the eyes and she turned me into sand 

This clumsy form that I despise, it scattered easy in her hand 

And it came to rest upon a beach with a million others there 

We sat and waited for the sea to stretch out so that we could disappear 

Into the endlessness of blue, into the horror of the truth 

You see we are far less than we knew, yeah, we are far less than we knew 

But we knew what we could taste 

Girls found honey to drench our hands 

The men cut marble to mark our graves 

Saying that we will need something to remind us 

Of all the sweetness that has passed through us 

(Fresh sangria and lemon tea) 

The priests dressed children for a choir 

(White-robed small voices praise him) 

But found no joy in what was sung 

The funeral had begun in the middle of the day 

When you drive home to your place from that job that makes you sleep 

Back to the thoughts that keep you awake 

Long after night has come to claim any life that still remains 

In the corner of the frame that you put around her face