We Exist

Album: Reflektor (2013)
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  • They're walking around
    Head full of sound
    Acting like
    We don't exist
    They walk in the room
    And stare right through you
    Talking like
    We don't exist
    But we exist
    Daddy it's true
    I'm different from you
    But tell me why they treat me like this?
    If you turned away
    What would I say?
    Not the first betrayed by a kiss

    Maybe it's true
    They're staring at you
    When you walk in the room
    Tell 'em it's fine
    Stare if you like
    Just let us through
    Just let us through
    Na na na na na na na
    Na na na na na na na

    They're down on their knees
    Begging us please
    Praying that we don't exist
    Daddy it's fine
    I'm used to 'em now
    But tell me why they treat me like this?
    It's cause we do it like this

    Na na na na na na na
    Na na na na na na na
    Maybe it's true
    They're staring at you
    When you walk in the room
    Tell 'em it's fine
    Stare if you like
    Just let us through
    Just let us through

    Let 'em stare! Let 'em stare!
    If that's all they can do!
    But I'd lose my heart
    If I turned away from you

    Oh Daddy don't turn away
    You know that I'm so scared
    But will you watch me drown?
    You know we're going nowhere
    We know that we're young
    And no shit we're confused
    But will you watch us drown?
    What are you so afraid to lose?

    Down on your knees
    Begging us please
    Praying that we don't exist
    You're down on your knees
    Begging us please
    Praying that we don't exist
    We exist!
    We exist!

    Down on your knees
    Begging us please
    Praying that we don't exist
    You're down on your knees
    Begging us please
    Praying that we don't exist
    We exist!
    We exist!
    We exist!
    We exist! Na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na, na na na na na na na

    Maybe if you hang together
    You can make the changes in our hearts
    And if you hang together, you can change us
    Just where should you start? Writer/s: Jeremy Gara, Regine Chassagne, Richard R Parry, Tim Kingsbury, William Butler, Win Butler
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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