Shins - Know Your Onion! Lyrics
Shut out, pimpled and angry.I quietly tied all my guts into knots.Gave up on trying to make them,I figured it'd take them too long to look up and besides...It was undeniably clear to me i don't know whyWhen every other part of life seemed locked behind shuttersI knew what worthless dregs we've always been.Lucked out and found my favorite recordsLying in wait at the birmingham mall.The songs that i heard,The occasional bookWere the only fun i ever took.And i got on with making myself.The trick is just making yourself.But when they're parking their cars on your chestYou've still got a view of the summer skyTo make it hurt twice when your restless bodyCaves to its whimsAnd suddenly struggles to take flight...Three thousand miles north eastI left all my friends at the morning bus stop shaking their heads."what kind of life you dream of? you're allergic to love."Yes i know but i must say in my own defenseIt's been undeniably dear to me, i don't know whyWhen every other part of life seemed locked behind shuttersI knew the worthless dregs we are,The selfless, loving saints we are,The melting, sliding dice we've always been
