Song To Pass The Time Lyrics - Fevers & Mirrors - Bright Eyes

There is a middle-aged woman, she's dragging her feet 

She carries baskets of clothes to a laundromat 

While the Mexican children kick rocks into the street 

And they laugh in a language I don't understand 

But I love them, why do I love them? 

So the neighborhood's dimming as I smoke on the porch 

Watch the people as they pass enclosed inside their cars 

And on their faces just anger or disappointment 

I start wishing there was something I could offer them 

Consolation, could I offer them? 

Never sad in their suburbs robots, water the lawn 

And everything they touch gets dusted spotless 

So they start to believe that they've not touched anything at all 

And the cars in the driveway only multiply 

Well they are lost in their houses 

And heard them sing in the shower 

Making speeches to their sister on the telephone 

Saying, "You come home, come here 

Don't stay so far away from me 

This weather has me wanting love more tangible 

Something I can hold because it's getting cold" 

I said, "Hold up our fists to the flame in the sky 

To block out the light that's reaching for our eyes 

Because, because it would blind us, it will blind us" 

I have locked my actions in the grooves of routine 

So I may never be free of this apathy 

But I wait for a letter that's coming to me 

She sends me pictures of the ocean in an envelope 

So there still is hope, yes I can be healed 

There is someone looking for what I concealed 

In my secret drawer, in my pockets deep 

You will find the reasons that I can't sleep 

And you will still want me 

But you still want me 

Will you still want me? 

Well, I say, "Come for the week, you can sleep in my bed" 

And pass through my life like a dream through my head 

It will, it will be easy, I'll make it easy 

All I have for the moment is a song to pass the time 

A melody to keep me from worrying 

Some simple progression to keep my fingers busy 

And words that are sure to come back to me and they'll be laughing 

And they'll be laughing 

My mediocrity 

My mediocrity 

They'll be laughing 

They'll be laughing 

They'll be laughing