I Believe In Symmetry - (with Nick Zinner) Lyrics - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn - Bright Eyes

Some plans were made and rice was thrown 

A house was built, a baby born 

How time can move both fast and slow amazes me 

So I raise my glass to symmetry 

To the second hand and its accuracy 

To the actual size of everything 

The desert is the sand 

You can't hold it in your hand 

It won't bow to your demand 

There's no difference you can make, there's no difference you can make 

And if it seems like an accident 

A collage of senselessness 

Then you weren't looking hard enough 

I wasn't looking hard enough at it 

An argument for consciousness 

The instinct of the blind insect 

Who makes love to the flower bed, and dies in the first freeze 

Oh, I want to learn such simple things 

No politics, no history, till what I want and what I need can finally be the same 

I just got myself to blame 

Leave everything up to fate 

When there's choices I could make, when there's choices I could make 

And now my heart needs a polygraph, always so eager to pack my bags 

When I really want to stay, when I really want to stay 

When I want to stay, when I want to stay 

I don't want to stay, I don't want to stay 

The arc of time, the stench of sex 

The innocence you can't protect 

Each quarter step, each marble note 

Walk up and down that lonely trebel cleft 

Each wanting the next one 

Each wanting the next one to arrive 

Each wanting the next one 

Each wanting the next one to arrive 

Argument for conciousness, the instinct of the blind insect 

Who never thinks not to accept its fate, that's faith, that's happiness in death 

You give to the next one 

you give to the next on down the line 

You give to the next one 

You give to the next on down the line 

The levity of longing that distills each dream inside my head 

My morning watered down forget 

On silver stars I wish and wish and wish 

Move on to the next one 

Move on to the next one down the line 

Move on to the next one 

Move on to the next one down the line 

You get to the next one 

You get to the next on down the line 

You get to the next one 

You get to the next on down the line