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Thread: Song-by-song lyric highlights from @TheNational I Am Easy to Find - see also A Meditation on Stringing Words Together: The National's "Roman Holiday" radicalscholarship.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/a-m…
@TheNational The National – You Had Your Soul with You genius.com/The-national-y…
You have no idea how hard I died when you left
If I yield to my trances, will I get up close again?
I had only one thing to do and I couldn't do it yet
I had only one thing left and I couldn't see it yet
You have no idea how hard I died when you left
If I yield to my trances, will I get up close again?
I had only one thing to do and I couldn't do it yet
I had only one thing left and I couldn't see it yet
The National – Quiet Light genius.com/The-national-q…
I'm just so tired of thinking about everything
I'm not afraid of being alone
I just don't know what to do with my time
I'm just so tired of thinking about everything
I'm not afraid of being alone
I just don't know what to do with my time
The National – Roman Holiday genius.com/The-national-r…
She said, "Please, think the best of him
Please, think the best of me
There are police in the museum
She said, "Please, think the best of him
Please, think the best of me
There are police in the museum
The National – Oblivions genius.com/The-national-o…
Do you think you can carry me over this threshold
Over and over again into oblivion?
Do you think you can carry me over this threshold
Over and over again into oblivion?
The National – The Pull of You genius.com/The-national-t…
I'm either at the bottom of a well or spinning into somebody's outdoor glass furniture
I'm either at the bottom of a well or spinning into somebody's outdoor glass furniture
The National – Hey Rosey genius.com/The-national-h…
I'm the rocks they weigh down the angels with
Help me see it won't always be like this...
I will love you like there's razors in it
I'm the rocks they weigh down the angels with
Help me see it won't always be like this...
I will love you like there's razors in it
The National – I Am Easy to Find genius.com/The-national-i…
I'm not going anywhere
Who do I think I'm kidding?
I'm still standing in the same place where you left me standing
I'm not going anywhere
Who do I think I'm kidding?
I'm still standing in the same place where you left me standing
The National – Where Is Her Head genius.com/The-national-w…
I think I’m hittin' a wall
I hate loving you as much as I do, I think I'm runnin' away, I
Feel the dark storm you bring, I can't take another day
I think I’m hittin' a wall
I hate loving you as much as I do, I think I'm runnin' away, I
Feel the dark storm you bring, I can't take another day
The National – Not in Kansas genius.com/The-national-n…
I raked the leaves and I started fires
Now I'm reading whatever you give me
It's half your fault so half forgive me
I raked the leaves and I started fires
Now I'm reading whatever you give me
It's half your fault so half forgive me
The National – So Far So Fast genius.com/The-national-s…
Lay down in the doorway in front of me
And make yourself impossible for me to leave
Lay down in the doorway in front of me
And make yourself impossible for me to leave
The National – Hairpin Turns genius.com/The-national-h…
We're always arguing about the same things
Days of brutalism and hairpin turns
We're always arguing about the same things
Days of brutalism and hairpin turns
The National – Rylan genius.com/The-national-r…
Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater, you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me
Is it easy to keep so quiet?
Everybody loves a quiet child
Underwater, you're almost free
If you wanna be alone, come with me
The National – Light Years genius.com/The-national-l…
Oh, the glory of it all was lost on me
'Til I saw how hard it'd be to reach you
Oh, the glory of it all was lost on me
'Til I saw how hard it'd be to reach you
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