The National

Today you were far away
and I didn't ask you why
What could I say
I was far away
You just walked away
and I just watched you
What could I say
How clos...

Today you were far away
and I didn't ask you why
What could I say
I was far away
You just walked away
and I just watched you
What could I say ？
How cl...

And if you follow me son
The window wrap around you
Carry from the ground
You will never be alone
You wait one turn to sunlight
That's falling on a gi...

Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up
I'll rest my eyes till the fevers outta me
I'll rest my eyes to the rivers in the sea
La...

Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up
Stand up straight at the foot of your love
I lift my shirt up

I was carried to Ohio in ...

The National - Runaway



There's no saving anything
Now we're swallowing the shine of the sun
How we swallow the sun
But I won't be no runaway
'Cause...

I think they're onto me
 Didn't anybody, didn't anybody tell you
 Didn't anybody tell you how to gracefully disappear in a room
 I know you put in the...

I'm put together beautifully
 Big wet bottle in my fist, big wet rose in my teeth
 I'm perfect piece of ass
 Like every Californian
 So tall I take ov...

My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My mind's not right
 My ...

My mind's not right
My mind's not right
My mind's not right
My mind's not right
Abel, come on, give me the keys, man
Everything has all gone down wron...

It's  a  terrible  love  and  I'm  walking  in
It's  a  terrible  love  and  I'm  walking  in
It's  quiet  company
It's  quite  a  company
It's  a  te...

Oh, when I lift you up you feel
Like a hundred times yourself
I wish everybody knew
What's so great about you

Oh, but your love is such a swamp
You d...

I couldn't find quiet
I went out in the rain
I was just soakin' my head to unrattle my brain
Somebody said you disappeared in a crowd
I didn't underst...

I can see the glowing lights
I can see them every night
Really not that far away
I could be there in a day

I wonder if you live there still
I kinda t...

I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller Davy
But I can’t get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need ...

Stay out super late tonight picking apples, making pies
Put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us
We're half awake in a fake empire
W...

Everybody needs a prayer, and needs a friend
Everybody knows the world's about to end
Everybody wants to know what the end will be
Everybody wants to ...

I am good, I am grounded
Davy says that I look taller
I can't get my head around it
I keep feeling smaller and smaller
I need my girl
I need my girl

...

I think the kids are in trouble
 Do not know what all the troubles are for
 Give them ice for their fevers
 You're the only thing I ever want anymore
...

You're sleeping night and day
How'd you do it
Me I am wide awake
Feeling defeated
I say your name
I say I'm sorry
I know it's not working
I'm no holid...

I was a worm,I was a creature
I get on the ground the second I'd see you
You cannot command your love
I wasn't a catch, I wasn't a keeper
I was walkin...

Stay out super late tonight
Picking apples making pies
Put a little something in our lemonade
And take it with us
We're half awake in a fake empire
We...

I got two armfuls of magazines for you
I'll bring 'em over
So hang your holiday rainbow lights in the garden
Hang your holiday rainbow lights in the g...

I used to fall asleep to you talking to me
I don't listen to anything now
Nothing to do with us
I'm just so tired of thinking about everything
I'm not...

Tell me what to be, tell me how to talk
Patti wasn't lonely, Robert wasn't lost
Roman holiday
Every time it rains
Roman holiday
I'll take away your sh...

How long have we been here
    Am I ever coming down
I need to find some lower thinking
if I'm going to stick around
   I'm not going anywhere
  Who d...

Lay down in the doorway in front of me
And make yourself impossible for me to leave
I remember a kid in the water, I remember a world on fire
I was ju...

You were waiting outside for me in the sun
Laying down to soak it all in before we had to run
I was always ten feet behind you from the start
Didn't k...

Stay out super late tonight
Picking apples, making pies
Put a little something in our lemonade
And take it with us
We're half awake in a fake empire
W...

Memorize the bathwater, memorize the air
 There'll come a time I'll wanna know I was here
 Names on the doorframes, inches and ages
 Handprints in con...

I wasn't starting yet, I didn't even think you were listening
 I wasn't ready at all to say anything about anything interesting
 It's a thing you have...

Don't make this any harder
 Everybody’s waiting
 Walk-on's almost over
 Teenagers on ice
 Try to keep my distance
 Talking of forgiveness
 Once upon a...

I cannot believe what you get away with
 You find beauty in anything
 Whenever you look down into a sewer
 You see a diamond ring
 It isn't fair how y...

If you're ever sitting at the airport
 And you don't wanna leave
 Don't even know what you're there for
 Send for me
 If you're ever heartsick in an e...

Smoke detector, smoke detector
All you need to do is protect her
Smoke detector
Smoke detector, smoke detector
Blink and bless her and let her rest
Do...

What does it mean when
Your arms fall asleep? And
How do you get rid of hornets
Before the weekend?
When did they say we should
Turn back the clocks?
...

So happy I was invited
Gave me a reason to get out of the city
See you inside watchin' swarms on TV
Livin' and dyin' in New York, it means nothin' to ...

Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh
Maybe I listen more than you think
And I can tell that somebody sold you
We said we'd never let anyone in
We said we'd onl...

What about the glass dandelion?
 What about the tv screen?
 Maybe we should bury these
 What about the last of the good ones?
 What about the ceiling ...

It's a terrible love, and I'm walking in
 It's a terrible love, and I'm walking in
 It's quiet company
 It's quiet company

 It's a terrible love, and...