Method Acting Lyrics - Lifted Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground - Bright Eyes

There is no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand 

And a language learned and forgot, in turn is studied once again 

It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen 

You can squint at it through snowy static to make out the meaning 

And just keep stretching the antennae, hoping that it will come clear 

We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear 

Because I don't know what tomorrow brings 

It's alive with such possibilities 

All I know is I feel better when I sing 

Burdens are lifted from me 

That's my voice rising 

So Michael, please keep the tape rolling 

Boys keep strumming those guitars 

We need a record of our failures, we must document our love 

I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain 

To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending 

So thank you friends for the time we shared 

My love stays with you like sunlight and air 

Oh, I truly wish I could keep hanging around here 

But my joy is covering me, soon, I will disappear 

Well, not a movie, no private screening 

This method acting, well, I call that living 

It is a fountain, all the doors are open 

We got a problem with no solution 

But to love, love, love and to be loved 

So I've made peace with the falling leaves 

I see their same fate in my own body 

I won't be frightened when I am awoken from this dream 

And returned to that which gave birth to me 

And the story goes, and the story goes 

And it goes on and on and on and on 

It's going on and on and on 

It's going on and on and on 

It's going on and on and on 

It's going on and on and on 

And on 

And on 

And on 

...