give me your hand and let's jump out the window.

Australia - The Shins

Time to put the earphones on...
No!

Born to born to multiply,
Born to gaze into night skies,
All you want's one more Saturday.
But look here, until then
They're gonna buy your life's time
So keep your wick in the air and your feet in the fetters
Till the day.
We come in doing cartwheels
We all go out by ourselves
And your shape on the dance floor
Will have me thinking such filth and gouge my eyes.

You'd be damned to be one of us, girl
Faced with a dodo's conundrum
I felt like I could just fly
But nothing'll happen every time I try.

, originally uploaded by NatashaRM.

A dual tone under wall
Selfish fool and hoped you'd save us all
Never dreamt of such sterile hands,
You keep them folded in your lap,
And raise them up to beg for scraps,
You know, he's holding you down,
With the tips of his fingers just the same,
You'll be pulled from the ocean,
But just a minute too late,
Or changed by a potion,
And find a handsome young mate,
For you to love.

cloud, originally uploaded by busyliner.

You'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes, you know
You'll change your life for any ordinary Joe,
And though your night will go on,
Your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold.

Been in love since you were twenty-one,
You haven't laughed since January,
You try and make like this is so much fun,
But we know it to be quite contrary.

Christmas 2009 @ Orchard, originally uploaded by Skeelogy.

Dare to be one of us, girl,
Facing the android's conundrum,
I felt like I could just cry,
But nothing happens every time I take one on the chin,
You're Himmler your coat,
You don't know how long I've been,
Watching the lantern dim,
Starved of oxygen,
So give me your hand,
And lets jump out the window.

frozen into coats

, originally uploaded by petite.nordique.

Phantom Limb - The Shins

Frozen into coats,
White girls of the North,
Filed past one, five and one,
They are the fabled lambs,
A Sunday ham,
The ancient snow.

And they could float above the grass,
In circles if they tried,
A latent power Im known to hide,
To keep some hope alive,
That a girl like I could ever try,
Could ever try.

So we just skirt the hallway signs,
A phantom and a fly,
Follow the lines and wonder why
Theres no connection.

And weakened falling eyes,
In cheap shots from the tribe,

And were often in Marcus porch again,
Another afternoon with the gold head tunes,
And pilfered booze.

We wandered through the mamas house,
And the milk from the window lights,
Family portrait circa ninety-five,
This is that foreign land,
With the sprayed on tans,
And it all feels fine,
Beats circus slime,

So, when they tap our mundane heads,
To zombie-walk in our stead,
This town seems hardly worth our time,
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme,
Too far along in our climb,
Stepping over what now towers to the sky,
With no connection.

, originally uploaded by Danny Dutch.

Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo

So, when they tap our sunday heads,
To zombie-walk in our stead,
This town seems hardly worth our time,
And we'll no longer memorize or rhyme,
Too far along in our climb,
Stepping over what now towers to the sky,
With no connection.

Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo
Oooh waooooooo waooooooo (repeat to fade)

a song of modern love

The Shins - Girl on the Wing

One wound up punch of intuition
Lays flat my whole take on us.
Youre the girl on the wing of a barnstormer
The tidal rabbit who came of age before her time.

We could have been so good-natured
If id relented when you insisted,
But weve been backed against
All natures walls far too long.

You felt abandoned by me,
I recall the sunshine as you were melting
And though the comedy softens the fall
They still hear us with their ears to the wall.

I sold all my evil motives,
No icicles stuck in my hide.
Im through with riddles, i know were little
Just help me feel warm inside.

Before we take this ride and let it slide
Into the cracks where fall and winter collide.
I surrender all my gall in a song of modern love.
Remember youre the one who summoned me above any other kind.

We could have been so good-natured
If youd relented when i insisted,
We take a week off, let the garden grow by itself
And let the gluttons fill themselves with all the worst of the gory ninties.
And though the comedy softens the fall, we stall fall short.

Before we take this ride and let it slide
Into the cracks where fall and winter collide.
I surrender all my gall in a song of modern love.
Remember youre the one who summoned me above any other kind.