The Tortoise And The Tourist Lyrics - Strangers To Ourselves - Modest Mouse

Wake up, get ready 

Wake up, get ready 

What a wonderful trip's ahead 

Well, wake up, get ready 

Wake up, get ready 

Such a wonderful trip's ahead 

We get dressed as ghosts 

With sheets taken from the bed 

Inside our socks we hide travelers' checks 

We are tourists of the dead 

So let's pack up 

Let's go 

So let's pack up 

Let's go 

Let's pack up 

Let's go 

Let's go 

There was this tortoise, its shell was covered with jewels 

And had been since time began 

It knew the world through all its histories 

And the universe and its mysteries 

One day it came across a man 

The two were talking 

The tortoise offered to tell him 

About the future and how the universe ran 

Oh, the man killed the tortoise, took his shell 

And with a song on his lips walked off again 

So let's walk off 

Let's go 

So let's walk off 

Let's go 

Let's walk off 

Let's go 

So let's walk off 

Let's go 

Pack a lunch wander 'round 

Toss the map on the ground 

It isn't accurate anyways 

We've been getting away 

We've been getting away 

We are strangers to ourselves 

We sneak out 

Drip by drip 

Through paper cuts on our hands 

Day after day 

Nothing's quite the same 

We are tourists in our own heads 

So let's walk on 

Let's go 

Let's walk on 

Let's go 

Let's walk on (I think I feel ready to go) 

Let's go 

Let's walk on 

Let's go 

(I think I feel ready to go) 

(I think I feel ready to go) 

(I think I feel ready to go) 

(I think I feel ready to go) 

(I think I feel ready to go) 

(I think I feel ready to go)