Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh Lyrics
The phone slips from a loose grip. Words were missed then some apology like I didn't want totell you this it's just some guys she has been hanging out with oh I don't know the past coupleof weeks I guess. Thank you and hang up the phone. Let the funeral start. Hear the casketclose. Let's pin split-black ribbon onto your overcoat. Still laughter pours from under doors in thishouse. I don't understand that sound no more. It seems artificial like a T.V. set. Haligh, Haligh,Haligh, Haligh this weight it must be satisfied. You offer only one reply. You know not what youdo. But you tear and tear your hair from roots. From that same head you have twice removed alock of hair you said would prove our love would never die. Well ha ha ha. But I remembereverything the words we spoke on freezing South street. And all those morning watching youget ready for school. You combed your hair inside that mirror. The one you painted blue andglued with jewelry tears. Something about those bright colors always made you feel better. Sonow we speak with ruined tongues and the words we say aren't' meant for anyone. It's just amumbled sentence to a passing acquaintance, but there was once you said you hated mysuffering and you understood and you'd take care of me. You would always be there, well whereare you now? Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, Haligh, the plans were never finalized but left to hang likeyarn and twice dangling before my eyes. As you tear and tear your hair from roots, from thatsame head that you have twice removed a lock of hair you said would prove that our love wouldnever die. As I sing and sing of awful things, the pleasure that my sadness brings as my fingerspress onto the strings you get another clumsy chord. Haligh, Haligh, an awful lie. This weight willnow be satisfied. I will give you only one reply, I know not who I am but I talk in the mirror to thestranger that appears. Our conversations are circles and always one sided, nothing is clear.Except we keep coming back to this meaning that I lack. He says the choices were given andnow I must live them or just not live, but do you want that?
