A Perfect Sonnet

Album: Every Day and Every Night (2000)
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  • Lately I've been wishing I had one desire
    Something that would make me never want another
    Something that would make it so that nothing matters
    All would be clear then

    But I guess I'll have to settle for a for a few brief moments
    And watch all dissolve into a single second
    And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet
    Or one foolish line

    Because that's all that you'll get so you'll have to accept
    You are here and then you're gone
    But I believe that lovers should be tied together and
    Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather

    And left there to drown
    Left there to drown
    In their innocence
    But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter

    I read all of the pages and there is still no answer
    Only all that was before I know must soon come after
    That is the only way it can be
    So I stand in the sun

    And I breathe with my lungs
    Trying to spare myself the weight of the truth
    Saying everything you have ever seen was just a mirror
    And you've spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever

    And now you are laying ina bathtum full of freezing water
    Wishing you were a ghost
    But once you knew a girl and you named her lover
    And danced with her in kitchens through the greenest summer

    But autumn came, she disappeared
    You don't remember where she said she was going to
    But you know that she is gone because she left you a song
    That you don't want to sing

    We're singing I believe that lovers should be chained together
    And thrown into a fire with their songs and letters
    And left there to burn in their arrogance
    But as for me I'm coming to my final failure

    I've killed myself with changes trying to make it better
    But I still ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be
    Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers
    And laid entwined together on a bed of clover

    And left there to sleep
    Left there to dream of their happiness Writer/s: OBERST
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Comments: 2

  • Rachael from New Orleans, LaThis song. This song writer. Just...Frick...perfection. It makes me want to wail and sob the lyrics along with Connor.

    But as for me I'm coming to my final failure
    I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better
    But I ended up becoming something other than what I had planned to be
  • Alessandra from St.louis, Moi really love Bright Eyes & Conor is a god. lol. but yes. i think this song is deeper than being explained, but oh well. that is my opinion.... or maybe i just like to use more, and more descriptive words.
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