We Are Free Men Songtext

von Bright Eyes

The future spills its' intangibles, an unknown set of variables, a path that's splitting infinitely up ahead. So tell me what's the use to pick and choose from what you should or shouldn't do? That's time spent better sleeping in your bed. Or wide awake in a shopping mall trying clothes on from off of the wall. Yeah, anything to entertain yourself. 'Cause a costume can be quite comfortable, it can make you feel more beautiful. It can even make you look like someone else.

But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do. Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is and it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

They pat your back bruised with their accolades and all four walls are a trophy case. But that doesn't make any less of a cage. But you could make it all less difficult by embracing the ephemeral. Then you'd never have to worry or explain. 'Cause if it's really all just physical then my memory's immaterial. So why then do I remember you at all? But I do, I do, my friend, I've seen your face. We shared a cup, I know the taste. It's sweetness is relentless on my lips.

So help me drink in everything that is, like a freed convict drunk on redemption from the way I've been. Well, I swear this time that things will be different.

Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart for those who'd write that sentence where you hang. We will be lifted up from all of this. Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence. Yeah, your body's gone but angel you will live. Now your body's gone but angel you will live.